STRETTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of GREAT-BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of
BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 4 miles (S. by
E.) from Warrington, containing 277 inhabitants. In
1827 a new chapel, with a tower, in the early English
style, was erected, towards defraying the expense of
which the Incorporated Society for promoting the building
of additional churches granted £1800; itcontains
five hundred sittings, half of them free.