STRETTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of PENKRIDGE which is in the western division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from Penkridge. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the royal peculiar court of Penkridge, endowed with £?10 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of E. J. Littleton, Esq. The chapel is dedicated to St. John. The Grand Trunk canal passes in the vicinity. This is now an obscure place, supposed to occupy the site of the Roman Pennicrocium, agreeing in distance with the account given by Antoninus, in his Itinerary, and there having been several Roman coins, with other relics, found upon the spot.