Little Stretton, Leicestershire
Little Stretton is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire that lies approximately 5.53 miles (8.90 km) southeast of the city of Leicester.
Little Stretton is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire that lies approximately 5.53 miles (8.90 km) southeast of the city of Leicester. The parish includes the deserted medieval village of Great Stretton (or Stretton Magna, a scheduled monument that is located 0.7 miles to the west of the village. The Gartree Road, a Roman Road, runs through the parish, adjacent to both Little and Great Stretton, and is the reason for those settlements' names. According to the University of Nottingham English Place-names project, the settlement name Stretton means "strēt" for a Roman road; and "tūn" for a settlement or an estate. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 92, with approximately 36 households.
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Worth seeing in and around Little Stretton, Leicestershire
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Great Glen Methodist Church
Great Glen Methodist Church, Leicestershire, was built in 1827 and a church hall was later added to the east of the church in 1879.
2.6 km · church in Great Glen, Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Little Stretton, Leicestershire
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 34 km · Birmingham (BHX), 52 km · London Luton (LTN), 91 km
- Stations
- Leicester Airport, 1.8 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Little Stretton, Leicestershire61 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Little Stretton, Leicestershire90 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–14
- London → Little Stretton, Leicestershire136 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Little Stretton, Leicestershire
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Little Stretton, Leicestershire. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Little Stretton, Leicestershire is 9 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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