Strete is a coastal village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, on the coast of Start Bay, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The village is about 5 miles south-west of the town of Dartmouth on the A379 road between Dartmouth and Kingsbridge, atop the cliffs behind Pilchard Cove at the north end of Slapton Sands,[1] which part of the beach is known locally as Strete Sands.

[8] The Gara Brook flows into the Higher Ley of Slapton Ley, part of which is in the parish and at the northern end of which is Strete Gate where there is a small, free and a larger, pay-and-display car park with access to Strete Sands and a woodland walk.

[10] Donn's One-Inch map of 1765 records the village as Street,[11] which it remained until the late 19th century, when it was altered to be spelled Strete.

[a] Strete was one of the parishes evacuated in December 1943 as part of Exercise Tiger.