STRETTON-en-le-FIELDS, a parish in the hundred
of REPTON-and-GRESLEY, county of DERBY,
though locally in the western division of the hundred
of Goscote, county of Leicester, 5 miles (S. W.) from
Ashby de la Zouch, containing 116 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's
books at £9.10. 5., and in the patronage of Sir William
Browne Cave, Bart. The church, dedicated to
St. Michael, contains some ancient tombs- of ecclesiastics.