Little Stretton, Leicestershire
An archaeological assessment in 2011 listed an Iron Age enclosure to the south west of Manor Farm, and the presence of the ‘Gartree Road’ a Roman road only a few metres to the south west (probably the Via Devana to Ratae).[8] The poll tax returns of 1381 list 53 persons that were deemed eligible to pay.[10] In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stretton Parva as follows: STRETTON-PARVA, a chapelry in Kings Norton parish, Leicestershire; 3 miles N by E of Glenn r. station, and 5¾ SE of Leicester.[11] By the 1890s, "The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5" revealed a slight decline in population to 72.In 1919, the village gained a certain notoriety as the location of the Green Bicycle Case, the killing of Bella Wright.
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