Little Stretton

About

Little Stretton is a town of about 104 people in west midlands. (Village in Leicestershire, England.) According to Wikipedia: "Little Stretton is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire that lies approximately 5.53 miles (8.90 km) southeast of the city of Leicester. The parish includes the deserted medieval village of Great Stretton (or Stretton Magna, a scheduled monument that is located 0.7 miles to the west of the village. The Gartree Road, a Roman Road, runs through the parish, adjacent to both Little and Great Stretton, and is the reason for those settlements' names. According to the University of Nottingham English Place-names project, the settlement name Stretton means 'strēt' for a Roman road; and 'tūn' for a settlement or an estate. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 92, with approximately 36 households."

Coordinates

52.5953, -1.0139

Population

104

Sources

• wikidata: Q1837427 (CC0)
• wikipedia: Little Stretton, Leicestershire (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• commons: Little Stretton- leicestershire.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)