Stretton
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Situation
Church Stretton - Saxton Map: Church Stretton
The village sits at the broadening of a valley between the rolling hills of The Long Mynd to the north west, and the sharp edged ridge hills of Ragleth Hill (393m) and Caer Caradoc (459m) to the east. To the south, about a mile and a half away lies Little Stretton, and a mile to the north is All Stretton. Water comes from the Stretton Hills, fresh & calcium rich.
Little Stretton - Saxton Map: Stretton Pua
Little Stretton (180m) lies under the Long Mynd hills, about a mile and a half south from Church Stretton It faces east across the valley to the sharp ridge of Ragleth Hill (393m) as the valley opens out to the South.
About a mile to the SW lies the village of Minton.
Half way between Church Stretton and Little Stretton stands Brockhurst Castle
All Stretton - Saxton Map: Alstrelton
All Stretton lies on the road about a mile north of Church Stretton and four miles south of Dorrington. It lies directly below The Long Mynd hills to the north west. A minor road leads through these hills to Ratlinghope three miles to the north west.
History
Domesday
4 Land of Earl Roger
4,1 What Earl Roger himself holds
4,1,27
Stretton (Stratvn), Earl Edwin held it, with 4 outliers. 8 hides... In lordship 3 ploughs; 6 male and 2 female slaves.; 18 villagers and 8 smallholders with a priest who have 12 ploughs. A mill; a church; in the woodland 5 hedged enclosures; a further 6 ploughs possible. Value before 1066 £13; now 100s
4,28 What Earl Roger himself holds
4,28,4 Earl Leofric had 2 manors, Minton (Mvnetvne) and Whittingslow (Witecheslawe). 4 hides which pay tax. These two manors are included in the revenue of Earl Roger at Stretton (Stratune).
Post Domesday
Charter granted to hold a market by King John in 1215
Church
St Lawrence. The Norman nave has corner pilaster buttresses and a north doorway with two rolls in the arch and a sheil-na-gig above, and a south doorway with one order of shafts. In the 13th century the building was made cruciform with a new central tower, cancel, and transpts, and the trussed rafter roof of the nave is also of that period. Expanded further later, and new windows added.
Castle
Brockhurst Castle lies under a mile SSW of the village.
