Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stretton

Stretton, township and vil. with ry. sta. (for Ashover), North Wingfield par., Derbyshire - township, 1574 ac., pop. 630; vil., 6 miles S. of Chesterfield; has large iron-works.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: North Wingfield CP/AP       Stretton CP/Tn       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Stretton

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