Stretton en le Field, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Stretton-en-le-Field, a parish in Derbyshire, on the river Mease, 1½ mile from Measham station on the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint railway, and 5 miles SW of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Post town, Ashby-de-la-Zouch; money order and telegraph office, Donisthorpe. It comprises 1048 acres; population, 67. The manor, with Stretton Hall, belongs to the baronet family of Cave. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £234 with residence. The church is ancient, and consists of chance!, nave, N aisle, and embattled western tower with octagonal spire.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Stretton-En-Le-Fields St. Michael | |
| Hundred | Repton and Gresley | |
| Poor Law union | Ashby-de-la-Zouch |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stretton en le Field from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stretton-En-Le-Fields (St. Michael))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Stretton en le Field are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online: