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Origin Of The Surname Stretton
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Meaning Of The Surname Stretton
From the Town by the Roman Road
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Interesting
Facts About
Stretton
Stretton is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘straet’ which referred to a paved road built by the Romans, combined with ‘tun’ meaning settlement. Towns with this name would have originally been built next to such a road. |
Stretton Statistics
Stretton is the number 1194 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,263 share the surname Stretton in the UK.
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