Stretham (St. James)
STRETHAM (St. James), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 4¼ miles (S. W. by S.) from Ely; containing, with the chapelry of Thetford, 1357 inhabitants. A third of the village of Stretham was destroyed bv fire in May 1844, The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely, valued in the king's books at £22; net income, £756. At Thetford is a chapel of ease. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans; and two free schools.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.