Church Stretton

town and civil parish in Shropshire, England
Place town Q867120

Facts

13 properties
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.539°, -2.808°
Authority
Church Stretton Town Council[11]
Historic county
Shropshire[16]
Local dialing code
01694[9]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Shropshire[2]
OS grid reference
SO453937[10]
Population
4.2k (4.2k–4.7k, n=3)[13][14][15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 4,671 · 4,593 · 4,186 GeoNames 3,698 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
SY6[7]
Said to be the same as
Church Stretton[8]
Shares border with
Cwm Head[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Church Stretton en Church Stretton, Shropshire en Great Stretton fa چروچ استرتون ja チャーチ・ストレットン ko 처치 스트레튼 ro Church stretton ru Черч-Стреттон zh 徹奇斯特雷頓 zh-hans 彻奇斯特雷顿
🔖 Identifiers · 28
VIAF cluster ID
146623468
Library of Congress authority ID
n83220753
BBC News topic ID
c0n16pl8xret
British History Online VCH ID
salop/vol10/pp72-120
FactGrid item ID
Anatoly Chubais
Freebase ID
/m/01fr2v
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2592586
GSS code (2011)
E04011244, E04008492
GeoNames ID
2653021, 7297095
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National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564781605171
OpenDomesday settlement ID
SO4593/church-stretton
OpenStreetMap relation ID
6841297
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2653021
Quora topic ID
Church-Stretton-1
Survey of English Place-Names ID
53f1a003b47fc4261600017e
Topic's main category
Category:Church Stretton
UN/LOCODE
GBYUR
Vision of Britain place ID
219
Vision of Britain unit ID
10366744
WOEID
16062
Who's on First ID
1209850909
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJjxvTpWxT3gCWxQRGTT73

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🔗 Connections
← Site of astronomical discovery 18
Contained subdivisions 3
Instance of 3
Named after 2
People born here 2
Country 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in time zone 1
People who died here 1
SNARC ID 1
Shares border with 1
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Summary

Church Stretton is a town[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Church Stretton include it railway station[17], a railway station[18], in United Kingdom[19] and 11626 it[20], an asteroid[21], in United Kingdom[22].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include it railway station[17], a railway station[18], in United Kingdom[19] and 11626 it[20], an asteroid[21], in United Kingdom[22].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Shropshire
    Official website → http://www.churchstretton.co.uk/
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 52.539, 'lon': -2.808}
    Population → {'amount': '+4671'}, {'amount': '+4593'}, {'amount': '+4186'}
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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