Church Stretton
Church Stretton is a small town in Shropshire. Church Stretton is small, but busy and prosperous, and is popular for those who enjoy hillwalking and admiring the scenery of south Shropshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Thomas Tolkien, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,700 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Shropshire, England
- Also known as: “Church Stretton, Shropshire” and “Great Stretton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church Stretton railway station and Caer Caradoc.
Church Stretton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church Stretton railway station serves the town of Church Stretton, in Shropshire, England. It is on the Welsh Marches line, 12+3⁄4 miles south of Shrewsbury; trains on the Heart of Wales line also serve the station.
Caer Caradoc
Peak
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
Caer Caradoc is a hill in the English county of Shropshire. It overlooks the town of Church Stretton and the village of All Stretton and offers panoramic views to the north towards the Wrekin, east to Wenlock Edge, and west over the nearby Long Mynd.
St Laurence’s Church, Church Stretton
Church
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St Laurence's Church is in Church Street, Church Stretton, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Condover, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include All Stretton and Hope Bowdler.
All Stretton
Village
Photo: Dpaajones, CC BY-SA 3.0.
All Stretton is a village and a now separate civil parish in Shropshire, England. Much of it is covered by a Conservation Area.
Hope Bowdler
Village
Photo: Carol Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hope Bowdler is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is situated on the B4371, 1.5 miles east of the market town of Church Stretton.
Woolstaston
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woolstaston is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of the nearest town, Church Stretton. It is located in the northern foothills of the Long Mynd and is situated near Leebotwood, Smethcott and Picklescott. Woolstaston is situated 3 miles north of Church Stretton.
Church Stretton
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.5391° or 52° 32′ 21″ northLongitude
-2.8078° or 2° 48′ 28″ westPopulation
3,700Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB YUROpen location code
9C4VG5QR+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 586446998OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Church Stretton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Church Stretton”
- Basque: “Church Stretton”
- Bengali: “চার্চ স্ট্রেটন”
- Cebuano: “Church Stretton”
- Chinese: “Church Stretton”
- Chinese: “彻奇斯特雷顿”
- Chinese: “徹奇斯特雷頓”
- Dutch: “Church Stretton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيرش ستريتون”
- Esperanto: “Church Stretton”
- French: “Church Stretton”
- German: “Church Stretton”
- Gujarati: “ચર્ચ સ્ટ્રેટન”
- Hungarian: “Church Stretton”
- Irish: “Church Stretton”
- Italian: “Church Stretton”
- Japanese: “チャーチ・ストレットン”
- Kannada: “ಚರ್ಚ್ ಸ್ಟ್ರೆಟನ್”
- Korean: “처치 스트레튼”
- Ladin: “Church Stretton”
- Latin: “Magna Stretton”
- Lithuanian: “Čerč Stretonas”
- Lithuanian: “Church Stretton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Church Stretton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Church Stretton”
- Persian: “چروچ استرتون”
- Polish: “Church Stretton”
- Portuguese: “Church Stretton”
- Romanian: “Church stretton”
- Romanian: “Church Stretton”
- Russian: “Черч-Стреттон”
- South Azerbaijani: “چروچ استرتون”
- Spanish: “Church Stretton”
- Swedish: “Church Stretton”
- Tamil: “சர்ச் ஸ்ட்ரெட்ட்டான்”
- Telugu: “చర్చి స్ట్రెట్టన్”
- Turkish: “Church Stretton”
- Urdu: “چرچ اسٹریتٹن”
- Volapük: “Church Stretton”
- Welsh: “Church Stretton”
- “Church Stretton”
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