CHURCH STRETTON, urban district, Shropshire, Eng land, situated on a low watershed in a narrow longitudinal valley between the Longmynd and the Caradoc ranges. (Pop., 1931, 1,705.) It takes its name from the Roman road joining Viroco nium and Caerleon, on which it lies. The Great Western railway from Shrewsbury to Ludlow and the main road parallel to it make use of this gap, where the railway reaches a height of 600 feet. As a market town Church Stretton serves the hilly country between Wenlock Edge and Longmynd, but the area is limited by hill barriers and much trade drifts to Shrewsbury on the north and Craven Arms and Ludlow on the south. The hill ponies of the Longmynd are sold at an annual autumn fair. The neighbour hood has numerous prehistoric camps and barrows, while a remarkable ridgeway or "Portway" runs along the summit of the Longmynd.