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All Stretton

All Stretton is a village and a now separate civil parish in Shropshire, England. Much of it is covered by a Conservation Area.

All Stretton lies about a mile to the north of the market town of Church Stretton, on the old Shrewsbury Road (the B5477) – Shrewsbury is 12 miles to the north. Similarly, the small village of Little Stretton lies to the south of Church Stretton on the same road. The village lies between 580 and 600 feet above sea level at the northern end of the Stretton Gap. The beginning of the Cound Brook, a minor river that runs 25 miles across the southern Shropshire-Severn plains, is found in the village, where the stream from the Batch valley joins the Ashbrook. To the west of All Stretton is the Long Mynd, and to the east is Caer Caradoc.

The village does not lie in the parish of All Stretton, which is to its north, but in the civil parish of Church Stretton, which has a town council, of which All Stretton forms a parish ward. The southern part of the original parish, including the village, was transferred to the Church Stretton parish in 1934. The remaining parish of All Stretton is geographically small and has no well-defined settlements, only dispersed farms and houses, including Womerton and High Park. Its population was recorded as 120 at the 2011 census. Prior to the creation of a unitary Shropshire Council in 2009, the village and the parish lay in different districts (South Shropshire and Shrewsbury and Atcham). Even under the new arrangements the village is in the electoral division of Church Stretton and Craven Arms, whilst the parish is in the division of Burnell. The village lies in the constituency of South Shropshire, whilst the parish lies in Shrewsbury and Atcham.

To the east of the village is the Welsh Marches Line railway and the major A49 road. Regional Cycle Route 32/33 passes through the village, on its way from Longnor to Church Stretton.

The historic hamlet of Botvyle lies within the Church Stretton parish and parish ward of All Stretton (grid reference SO475961). It is situated to the northeast of All Stretton, on the other side of the A49, on the lane to Comley. It takes its name from the forest that once covered the area, the "Botwood", as does the nearby village of Leebotwood.

All Stretton is the home to the Yew Tree Inn public house. The former Stretton Hall Hotel, located in the centre of the village opposite the Yew Tree Inn, underwent redevelopment into a nursing home in 2008/2009; before that it had held a pub licence since 1976. There was once another pub in the village – the White Horse – but this is now a house, although a small pub sign still hangs outside. The village hall is used for a wide variety of local events including amateur theatre productions by the All Stretton Amateur Dramatics Society and cinema sittings with 'Flicks in the Sticks'. It also hosts the Women's Institutes meetings.

There is a small church in the village, built in 1902 and dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. It is a joint Church of England and United Reformed Church, and serves as one of three churches in the Church of England's ecclesiastical parish of Church Stretton, along with those in All Stretton and Little Stretton. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Diocese of Hereford. The church stands at the northern end of the village, on a hillside rising steeply from Shrewsbury Road. The church has a Roll of Honour naming the parish dead of both World Wars, and wooden panelling that includes the door to the vestry, in memory of a former curate, John Charles Bartleet, who died on active service as an army chaplain in Palestine in 1942.

The village's outdoor roadside war memorial, in the form of a stone obelisk, was unveiled in 1920 and restored to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in 1995, when the weathered names from both World Wars were reinstated on slate plaques.

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