page_title: Church Stretton
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: Church Stretton / Culture and sport / Football
caption_attribution_description: English: Russell's Meadow in Church Stretton, Shropshire, taken in 2011.
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.
context_section_description: Church Stretton Town F.C. (usually called simply "Stretton") is a football team who currently play in the West Midlands Regional League Division 2. Home games are played at Russell's Meadow, located near the centre of the town off Lutwyche Road (grid reference SO455939). The home kit is black and white (thick) vertical stripes.
  There has been a football field at Russell's Meadow since the 1930s, though the pavilion moved (c. 1950s) from the other side of the Ashbrook to its present location near Lutwyche Road. There is a community project on-going to raise funds and then build a new pavilion at Russell's Meadow. In 2011 funding was secured from Sport England to improve the five existing football pitches and create two new training pitches, on both Russell's Meadow and neighbouring Robinson's Field. Russell's Meadow is also home to a separate football club for under-16s – the Church Stretton Magpies — and to Sunday league football. The home colours of both the Town and Magpies teams is black and white.
caption: The town centre viewed across Russell's Meadow; the Long Mynd is on the right
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