Little Stretton, Leicestershire
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 Little Stretton
Little Stretton shown within Leicestershire |
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| OS grid reference | SK668001 |
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| Civil parish | Little Stretton |
| District | Harborough |
| Shire county | Leicestershire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEICESTER |
| Postcode district | LE2 |
| Dialling code | 0116 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Harborough |
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Little Stretton (otherwise Stretton Parva) is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.
Within the parish, to the west of Little Stretton village, lies a deserted medieval village called Stretton Magna (or Great Stretton).
Gartree Road, a Roman Road, runs through the parish, adjacent to both Little and Great Stretton, and is the reason for those settlements' names (see: Stretton).
Parish Church
The church of Little Stretton is The Chapel of Ease, St Clement, Stretton Parva (in the Parish of St John the Baptist King's Norton, Leicestershire)
Rectors, Vicars and Patrons
- 1220 William de Kibworth
- 1234 Robert de Diwurne
- 1238 William Ordiz
- 1261 Simon de Slybur
- 1287 Roger de Barneburg
- 1391 Richard Dollesdon
- 1534 Thomas Burg
- 1560 Thomas Tookie
- 1671 James Rosse
- 1714 William Wallis
- 1726 Francis Miles
- 1733 Thomas Milward
- 1737 John Vann
- 1749 William Ludlam
- 1783 Thomas Rogers
- 1788 Richard Walker
- 1826 Thomas Charles Ord
- 1844 Hugh Palliser de Costobadie
- 1887 Caleb Eacott
- 1911 Hubert Woodall Brown
- 1938 Walter Ricon Davis
- 1948 John Sydney Lewis David
- 1951 Frank Allen Cox
- 1956 Edward Hudspith
- 1963 Derek Henry Kingham
- 1973 Albert Edward Kemp
- 1983 Roger Wakeley
- 1988 Ashley Frederick Bruce Cheeseman
- 2010 John Morley
- 2012 Vacant
See also
References
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Village history
- Census 2001 Parish Profile from Leicestershire County Council
- Detailed history of Little Stretton (originally part of Kings Norton parish)
- Ordnance Survey mapping of Little Stretton
- Photographs of the OS grid square for Little Stretton from Geograph
- Search for designated historic sites and buildings in Little Stretton
- Account of the Green Bicycle murder at Little Stretton 5 July 1919
