Streatfeild_family
The Streatfeilds, Streatfields or Stretfields are an aristocratic English family of the landed gentry, from Chiddingstone, Kent. The family are traceable to the early 16th century and are a possible cadet branch of the Noble House of Stratford.[citation needed] They were significant landowners[citation needed] in Sussex, Surrey and Kent, and instrumental in shaping those counties throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.[citation needed] From the early 16th century until 1900 the family seat was Chiddingstone Castle. The family later sold the castle to Lord Astor in 1938.[1]