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:''See also: Battle of Stratton 1643'' Stratton ((コーンウォール語:Strasnedh)) is a small town situated near the coastal resort of Bude in north Cornwall, England, UK. It was also the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall - see "Hundreds of Cornwall". A battle of the English civil war took place here on 16 May 1643.〔(1643: Civil War in the South-West ) ''The British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website''〕 A local saying at Stratton is "Stratton was a market town when Bude was just a furzy down", meaning Stratton was long established when Bude was just gorse-covered downland.〔A similar saying is current at Saltash about Plymouth.〕 ==History== The earliest known references to Stratton are found in King Alfred’s Will of c. 880 and the Domesday survey of 1086. (For the Stratton Hundred: see under Government below.) The earliest form of the name of Stratton is ''Strætneat'', an Anglo-Saxon form derived from Old Cornish "strad" and "neth", meaning the flat-bottomed valley of the river Neth.〔Weatherhill, Craig (2009) ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-names''. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype; p. 65〕 This river is now known as the River Strat (by back formation from Stratton). At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor of Stratton had land for 30 ploughs. There were 30 villeins, 20 smallholders and 20 slaves. There were 10 salt houses, 20 acres of woodland, 200 acres of pasture, 30 cattle and 300 sheep. Before the conquest the manor had been held by Bishop Osbern and Alfred the Marshal; its value in 1086 was £35-18-4d.〔Thorn, Caroline, et al. (eds.) ''Cornwall''. Chichester: Phillimore; entry 5,1,3〕 The town has given its name to a traditional folk ballad "The Stratton Carol". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stratton, Cornwall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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