Stretton-Under-Foss
STRETTON-UNDER-FOSS, a hamlet, in the parish of Monks-Kirby, union of Lutterworth, Kirby division of the hundred of Knightlow, N. division of the county of Warwick, 6¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Rugby; containing, with Newbold-Revel, 336 inhabitants and an area of 1138 acres. The village is intersected by the road between Coventry and Lutterworth: and the Oxford canal is crossed by the old Fosse-road on the west of it: the rateable annual value of canal property here is £800. There is a place of worship for Independents.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.