Stretton Magna

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church is a small, ancient stone building.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• The church is no longer used for services.
   
• The churchyard is still open for burials.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of St Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   
• Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of St Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1585.
   
• The parish was in the rural deanery of Gartree (second portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon Registration District.
   

Great Sretton is actually smaller than Little Stretton. It is a small village, a township and a parish 5 miles south-east of Leicester city, 2 miles east of Great Glen and 103 miles north of London. The parish covers 704 acres and was partly pasture and partly farmland for centuries.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A6 south-east out of Leicester through WIgston. You will need to turn north (left) at Newton Harcourt.
   
• The Leicester Airport lies just to the north of the old village.
   
• Ashley DACE has a photograph of part of Leicester Airport on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2010.
   
• The Gartree Road that runs through the village is the old Roman Road. It gives its name, "Stretton," to the village.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stretton Magna to another place.

• Most of the parish land was given over to pasturage.
   
• At last check, only about three homes were occupied in the area of the medieval village.
   
• HistoricEngland.org.uk lists this place as a "deserted village, two fishponds and moated site."
   

• Stretton Hall is a large brick mansion and was the seat of Charles PACKE, Esq., in 1881.
   
• The Hall was the residence of Captain Edward Christopher PACKE in 1912.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK660006 (Lat/Lon: 52.599294, -1.02705), Stretton Magna which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Although known to most people as "Great Stretton", the parish's official name is "Stretton Magna", the Latin equivalent.
   

• This place was an ancient chapelry and township in Glenn Magna parish in the county of Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the eastern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1936, the parish was reduced by 8 acres given to Oadby Civil Parish.
   

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became the centre of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was ensclosed here between 1640 and 1670.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	22
1811	24
1841	38
1871	33
1881	34
1891	32
1901	27
1911	43

• The children of this parish attended school in either Gaulby or Great Glen.