page_title: Church Stretton
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Church Stretton / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Bus emerging from Beaumont Road into Sandford Avenue
context_page_description: Church Stretton is a market town in Shropshire, England, 13 miles south of Shrewsbury and 15 miles north of Ludlow. The population in 2011 was 4,671.
  The town was nicknamed Little Switzerland in the late Victorian and Edwardian period for its landscape, and became a health resort. The local geology includes some of the oldest rocks in England and a notable fault is named after the town.
  Today, Church Stretton is a busy market town in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
caption: A Minsterley Motors bus turning off Beaumont Road onto Sandford Avenue
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