Stretton, South Staffordshire

Coordinates: 52°42′N 2°10′W / 52.7°N 2.17°W Stretton is a small, dispersed village in South Staffordshire, England. It is situated just north of the A5 road near to the village of Lapley.

The A5 is Watling Street, a notable Roman Road, and another Roman road passes through Stretton from Mediolanum (Whitchurch), forming a junction with Watling Street near to the bridge over the River Penk. (On the other side of the river was the now-deserted Roman settlement of Pennocrucium.) It is the village's situation on the road from Mediolanum that gives it its name, the Old English for Street Town ("street" meaning a paved or Roman road). Stretton Bridge today carries Watling Street over the Penk.[1]

Stretton Hall is in the village.

The Shropshire Union Canal passes to the west of the village, where there is a Stretton Wharf. The Stretton Aqueduct carries the canal over the A5 road.

The civil parish is called Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston.

Vernon Lodge Preparatory School is a coeducational non-selective independent school for children aged 2 to 11 in the small village of Stretton near Brewood, Staffordshire, England.[2] Vernon Lodge was founded in 1981 by Dorothy Lodge, the school's proprietor and first headteacher. It received full accreditation from the Independent Schools Council in 1986.[3]

The parish church of St John's Church, Stretton dates from the 12th century, but the nave and transepts were rebuilt in 1860.

References

  1. ↑ Geograph.org.uk Stretton Bridge
  2. ↑ "You may have heard about Vernon Lodge...". Village Times. 4 October 2012.
  3. ↑ About Vernon Lodge