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Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is situated on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River. Stratford is in the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was arranged by Puritans in 1639.

The population was 52,355 as of the 2020 census. It is bordered upon the west by Bridgeport, to the north by Trumbull and Shelton, and upon the east by Milford (across the Housatonic River). Stratford has a historical legacy in aviation, the military, and theater.

Stratford was founded in 1639 by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman, William Beardsley, and either 16 families (according to legend) or approximately 35 families (suggested by cutting edge research) who had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom. In 1639 the General Court in Hartford made citation to the town as the “new plantation at Pequannock“. In 1640 the community was known as Cupheag, a Native American Paugussett word meaning “at the enclosed place” or “place of shelter”. By April 13, 1643, the growing town was known as Stratford, changed to honor William Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon in England.