Strete
- Not to be confused with Street, Somerset
| Strete | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Looking down Church Hill, Strete | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX841469 |
| Location: | 50°18’36"N, 3°37’44"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 474 (2011) |
| Post town: | Dartmouth |
| Postcode: | TQ6 |
| Dialling code: | 01803 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Hams |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Totnes |
Strete is a village in the south of Devon, standing on the coast of Start Bay, the great, shallow scoop out of the east side of Devonshire's south coast. It is within the 'South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty'.
The village to be found is about five miles south-west of the town of Dartmouth, on the A379 road between Dartmouth and Kingsbridge, atop the cliffs behind Pilchard Cove at the north end of Slapton Sands, which part of the beach is known locally as Strete Sands.[1] The northern end of the beach has been a naturist beach for many years.[2]
There was a small mediæval chapel of ease in the village until 1836 when the present church, dedicated to St Michael, was built on the same site, incorporating the chapel's tower.[3][4]
The population of the parish was recorded as 474 in 2011.
The Gara Brook flows into the Higher Ley of Slapton Ley, part of which is in the parish and at the northern end of which is Strete Gate where there is a small, free and a larger, pay-and-display car park with access to Strete Sands and a woodland walk.[5]
The first documentary mention of the place was as Streta in 1194. In 1244 it was called Strete. The name derives from Old English Strǣt, meaning a road or Roman road; the village lies on an ancient trackway.[6] Donn's One-Inch map of 1765 records the village as Street,[7] which it remained until 1870, when it was altered to be spelled Strete.[8] but it is still shown as "Street" in White's Gazetteer of 1878.[9]}}
Strete was one of the parishes evacuated in December 1943 as part of Exercise Tiger.[3]
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References
- ↑ "Minutes of Strete Parish Council, 16 April 2015 (section 0414/10)". http://www.strete.org.uk/minutesapril.html. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ↑ "Clothes Free / Naturist / Nudist Beaches in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland - Slapton Sands - South Devon". Saturday Walkers' Club. http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/clothes-free/beach/Slapton_Sands_South_Devon.shtml. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Handbook of Devon Parishes
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8page 770
- ↑ "Teachers Beach Guide – Strete Gate". South Devon AONB. http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/uploads/files/beach_guides/42_Strete_Gate.pdf. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ↑ Watts, Victor (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 586. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
- ↑ Donn, Benjamin (1965). A map of the County of Devon, 1765. Reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by W. L. D. Ravenhill.. London: Lund, Humphries.
- ↑ Strete Conservation Area Appraisal. South Hams District Council, July 2009. p. 6. http://www.southhams.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=2070&p=0. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ White, William (1878). History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Devon (2nd ed.). pp. 163–5. https://archive.org/stream/historygazetteer00whituoft#page/164/mode/2up.