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STRETTON (near Runcorn)

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"STRETTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of GREAT-BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 4½ miles (S. by E.) from Warrington, containing 277 inhabitants. In 1827 a new chapel, with a tower, in the early English style, was erected, towards defraying the expense of which the Incorporated Society for promoting the building of additional churches granted £1800; it contains five hundred sittings, half of them free." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Stretton was a township in Great Budworth ancient parish, Bucklow hundred (SJ 6282), which became a civil parish in 1866.
It includes the hamlet of Stockley.
The population was 220 in 1801, 367 in 1851, 310 in 1901, 1083 in 1951, and 1009 in 2001.

Cemeteries

Anglican
St Matthew, Stretton (near Warrington), Church of England

Churches

Great Budworth: St. Mary & All Saints (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Stretton.
Stretton: St. Matthew (Church of England). Built in 1827 as a chapel to Great Budworth: St. Mary & All Saints, becoming the district church for Stretton in 1834.

Anglican
St Matthew, Stretton (near Warrington), Church of England

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Civil Registration

Runcorn (1837-1974)
Warrington (1974+)

Court Records

Bucklow (1828-39)
Daresbury (1839-1974)
Warrington (1974+)

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Politics and Government

Runcorn Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
Runcorn Rural District (1894-1974)
Warrington (1974+)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Runcorn

Voting Registers

North Cheshire (1832-67)
Mid Cheshire (1868-85)
Knutsford (1885-1948)
Runcorn (1949-74)