Crossword-Solution: STRETFORD
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| Clue | Answers |
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| MANCHESTER Metropolitan County, area of the Greater (Eng.) | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRETFORD (5)
Each bears to this day (at Stretford and at Stretton) the proof of its old character, for both words indicate the passage of a "street," that is, of a hard-made way, over the soft and drowned land.
Stretford was but the approach to Manchester from Chester--and Manchester thus commanded (by the way) the two south-eastern approaches to the county, the one natural, the other artificial.
They called their roads _strata_ or streets; and all names of places containing the word _street_, such as _Streatley_, or _Stretford_, denote that they were situated on one of these Roman roads.
The second were towns which grew up slowly for purposes of trade by fords of rivers or at ports: such are Oxeneford, Oxford; Bedcanford, Bedford (a British town); Stretford, Stratford; and Wealingaford, Wallingford.
Elated over their successes, the Russians were collecting their forces preparatory to a decisive rush over the Mersey to Stretford, intending to take that place, and advance by that route upon Manchester.