• Stretton was a township in Great Budworth Parish, Bucklow Hundred (SJ 6282), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlet of Stockley.
• The population was 220 in 1801, 367 in 1851, 310 in 1901, and 1083 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Great Budworth, St. Mary & All Saints (C of E). The ancient parish church for Stretton.
• Stretton, St. Matthew (C of E). Built in 1827 as a chapel to Great Budworth, created a separate parish in 1834 to serve Stretton and part of Appleton. Registers of Baptisms 1827–1944, Marriages 1835–1938 and Burials 1828–1960 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Runcorn Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Runcorn Rural District (1894–1974)
• Warrington (1974+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832–67)
• Mid Cheshire (1868–85)
• Knutsford (1885–1948)
• Runcorn (1949–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Runcorn

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Runcorn (1837–1974)
• Warrington (1974+) 

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