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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]
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- 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.
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