Stratton is in the hundred of the same name, and is bounded to the
west by the north or Severn channel and Poughill, to the north by
Kilkhampton, to the east by the river Tamar, to the south by Lancells,
Marhamchurch, and Poundstock.
As for the name, it is no other than the street town, from its
consisting chiefly of one street, and being a great thoroughfare, but
more probably from a Roman Way. [from the Roman stratum or street
certainly, on which it lies. W.]
In anno 1291, 20 Edward I. the rectory was valued (Tax. Ben.) at £7.
13_s._ 4_d._ being appropriated to the Priory of Lanceston; and the
vicar at 20_s._
This church is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Book, at £10. 11_s._
6_d._ ob.; the patronage in the crown.