page_title: Stretton-on-Fosse
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Stretton-on-Fosse / History / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: This June 2009 map, posted in the village, defines the use and name of the buildings
context_page_description: Stretton-on-Fosse is a small village and civil parish with fewer than 200 houses, most built of Cotswold stone or locally-made red brick, situated on the Warwickshire-Gloucestershire border on the fringe of the Cotswold Hills. It is governed by the Stratford-on-Avon District council. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 439. By comparison, the 1931 population was 282. The village has about 200 buildings, made of Cotswold stone or locally made red bricks. Of these, 18 are Grade II Listed by Historic England. At one time, the village was known as Stretton upon Fosse.
  Some of the current cottages were previously used for other purposes, such as Tea Cosy Cottage which was the village post office in the early 1900s and The Bakery cottage which retains its old bread oven.
context_section_description: In 1826 a tram with horse-drawn cars began passing through the village, operated by the Stratford and Moreton Tramway on a four-feet gauge rail.
  By 1825 the Great Western Railway operated a train between Stratford-upon-Avon and Moreton-in-Marsh, and it passed through the village without stopping. The railway station was not built until November 1892, in the north-east part of the village near the Fosseway road. Before completion of construction, the train would stop on request at the nearby Golden Cross Inn.
  Passenger services were discontinued in 1929 and freight services in 1941. A branch line was constructed to Shipston-on-Stour which was used for passengers until 1929 and goods until 1960. The Stratford and Moreton Tramway also stopped at Stretton. The station was demolished in 1964.
  In 2019, direct (non-stop) Great Western train service from London Paddington station to the Moreton-in-Marsh railway station was expected to take under 2 hours; a bus was available from the station to Stretton. The highway route from London to Stretton was via the M4 to M25 to M40 and then to the A429, approximately a two hour drive. No public transport was running through the village but a bus did stop just outside the community.
caption: This June 2009 map, posted in the village, defines the use and name of the buildings
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