Little Stretton (otherwise Stretton Parva) is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The population is included in the civil parish of Burton Overy.

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Little Stretton
Approaching Little Stretton
Little Stretton Location within Leicestershire
OS grid reference	SK668001
Civil parish	Little Stretton
District	Harborough
Shire county	Leicestershire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LEICESTER
Postcode district	LE2
Dialling code	0116
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Harborough
List of places UK England Leicestershire 52.595043°N 1.014538°W / 52.595043; -1.014538

Within the parish, to the west of Little Stretton village, lies a deserted medieval village called Stretton Magna (or Great Stretton).

Gartree Road, a Roman Road, runs through the parish, adjacent to both Little and Great Stretton, and is the reason for those settlements' names (see: Stretton).

In 1919, the village gained a certain notoriety as the location of the Green Bicycle Case, the killing of Bella Wright.

Parish Church

The church of Little Stretton is the Chapel of Ease, St Clement, Stretton Parva (in the parish of St John the Baptist, King's Norton, Leicestershire)

Rectors, Vicars and Patrons

• 1220 William de Kibworth
• 1234 Robert de Diwurne
• 1238 William Ordiz
• 1261 Simon de Slybur
• 1287 Roger de Barneburg
• 1391 Richard Dollesdon
• 1534 Thomas Burg
• 1560 Thomas Tookie
• 1671 James Rosse
• 1714 William Wallis
• 1726 Francis Miles
• 1733 Thomas Milward
• 1737 John Vann
• 1749 William Ludlam
• 1783 Thomas Rogers
• 1788 Richard Walker
• 1826 Thomas Charles Ord
• 1844 Hugh Palliser de Costobadie
• 1887 Caleb Eacott
• 1911 Hubert Woodall Brown
• 1938 Walter Ricon Davis
• 1948 John Sydney Lewis David
• 1951 Frank Allen Cox
• 1956 Edward Hudspith
• 1963 Derek Henry Kingham
• 1973 Albert Edward Kemp
• 1983 Roger Wakeley
• 1988 Ashley Frederick Bruce Cheeseman
• 2010 John Morley
• 2012 Vacant

See also

• Stretton Hall, Leicestershire

References

External links

Media related to Little Stretton at Wikimedia Commons

• Village history
• Census 2001 Parish Profile from Leicestershire County Council
• Detailed history of Little Stretton (originally part of Kings Norton parish)
• Ordnance Survey mapping of Little Stretton
• Photographs of the OS grid square for Little Stretton from Geograph
• Search for designated historic sites and buildings in Little Stretton
• Account of the Green Bicycle murder at Little Stretton 5 July 1919