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'{{Infobox UK place |country = England |official_name = Stretton |region = East Midlands |static_image = |static_image_caption = |area_footnotes=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_AREA_A&u_id=10037864&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=A vision of Britain through time |accessdate=21 March 2009 |publisher=University of Portsmouth}}</ref> |area_total_sq_mi = 3.09 |population = 770 [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF |title=Rutland Civil Parish Populations |accessdate=21 March 2009|publisher=Rutland County Council |date= 2001}}</ref> |population_density = {{Pop density mi2 to km2|249|precision=0|abbr=yes}} |os_grid_reference = SK948160 |latitude = 52.734 |longitude = -0.597 |post_town = OAKHAM |postcode_district = LE15 |postcode_area = LE |dial_code = 01572 |constituency_westminster= [[Rutland and Melton (UK Parliament constituency)|Rutland and Melton]] |london_distance = {{convert|88|mi}} [[Boxing the compass|SSE]] |unitary_england = [[Rutland]] |lieutenancy_england = [[Rutland]] |shire_county = [[Rutland]] |website = }} '''Stretton''' is a small [[village]] and [[civil parish]] in the [[county]] of [[Rutland]], [[England]], just off the [[A1 road (Great Britain)|A1 Great North Road]]. ==Geography== The principal landmark is a large modern [[prison]], [[Stocken (HM Prison)|HMP Stocken]]. Stocken Hall itself, dating principally from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was used as the prison farm from the 1950s until the 1980s but is now converted into [[apartment]]s. Of the fourteen Strettons in England, all but two are on [[Roman road]]s, and Stretton in Rutland is no exception, being situated on [[Ermine Street]]. The [[civil parish]] extends along the east side of the A1 up to the edge of Morkery Wood. It also extends at this point to the west side of the A1, as far south as ''[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/577722 Hooby Lane]'', and includes [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/169656 Hooby Lodge]. The B668 (for [[Oakham]]) meets the A1 at a junction, improved in 1971 when the A1 was dualled to [[Great Casterton]]. ==History== The pub is called the ''[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/114418 Jackson Stops]'' (the name of an estate agents). It was previously called the ''White Horse'' but was for sale for so long with the estate agents' sign outside that it is now officially called by their name. Counter-intuitively, the ''Ram Jam Inn'' (former ''[http://www.diningpubs.co.uk/pub_details.asp?id=260 Winchelsea Arms]''), [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/164598 situated] on the Great North Road next to a service station, is (just) in the parish of Greetham. It was bought by the then-owner of Stocken Hall, [[Eton College|Eton]]-and-[[Trinity College, Cambridge|Cambridge]]-educated Major Charles Fleetwood-Hesketh (1871-1947), in the 1920s, who transformed it into a well-known roadside inn. He was also a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of [[Lancashire]], as was his [[Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh|son]] who became a Conservative MP. Also in the parish of Greetham is the former ''Greetham Inn'' (previously the ''New Inn''). Rev. [[Edward Bradley (writer)|Edward Bradley]] (1827&ndash;89), who wrote as Cuthbert Bede, is buried in the churchyard. The parish [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/359398 church] is dedicated to St Peter. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.rutnet.co.uk/pp/location/detail.asp?id=45 Stretton at Rutnet with history section] * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5A7mYBaiAU Walk from Clipsham to Oakham via Stretton on YouTube] * [http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinoakham/sets/72157616272069358/ Photographs of the local area] * [http://www.strettonlakes.co.uk Stretton Lakes] {{Rutland-geo-stub}} [[Category:Villages in Rutland]] [[de:Stretton (Rutland)]]'