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Possibly the most famous and most visited literary landmark in Britain. This is the house where it is thought that Shakespeare was born and spent his formative years. The house is approached via the Visitors' Centre which holds a comprehensive exhibition about Shakespeare's life. The Birthplace is then…
Distance: 7.5 miles away

The Swan Theatre's ornate Victorian Gothic building is home to displays from the RSC Collection. Items are selected from a wide range of material, collected since the original theatre opened in 1879, which illustrate the history of performance in Stratford's theatres. The RSC Collection is open from…
Distance: 7.8 miles away

Anne Hathaway's Cottage was the home of Shakespeare's wife before they married in 1582. Besides its romantic associations, as the place where the teenage Shakespeare courted his future wife, the Hathaway home has also come to be regarded as the quintessential English country cottage. The thatched farmhouse continued…
Distance: 6.6 miles away

Hidcote Manor Garden is a celebrated 20th Century garden in the beautiful North Cotswolds, featuring one of Englands greatest gardens, an arts and crafts masterpiece.One of England's great gardens, Hidcote was designed and created in the Arts & Crafts style by the horticulturist Major Lawrence Johnston. It is…
Distance: 10.6 miles away

Picturesque medieval moated manor house and garden.This atmospheric house dates from the 15th century and has changed little since 1634. The interiors reflect the house&8217;s heyday in the Elizabethan era, when it was a haven for persecuted Catholics &8211; there are no fewer than three priest‐holes. There is…
Distance: 11.7 miles away

Superb Tudor house and landscaped deer park. The home of the Lucy family for over 700 years, the mellow brickwork and great chimneys of Charlecote seem to sum up the very essence of Tudor England. There are strong associations with both Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, who knew…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Kiftsgate Court Gardens is a series of interconnecting gardens each with its distinct character and secrets. Let them share their secrets with you. Our garden is the creation of three generations of women gardeners. Started by my grandmother Heather Muir in the twenties, continued by my mother Diany…
Distance: 10.3 miles away

Mary Ardens House in the village of Wilmcote, a couple of miles north of Stratford, was the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother. Situated three and a half miles outside Stratford, it is also home to the Shakespeare countryside museum, two historic farms, displays of farm implements, daily…
Distance: 5.3 miles away

New Place in Chapel Street was William Shakespeare's final retirement home. Built by Hugh Clopton it was the second largest building in Stratford and was the only house made from brick. In addition to the exceptional collection of Elizabethan furniture and tapestries, Nash's House also has…
Distance: 7.6 miles away

A fascinating 20th‐century evocation of domestic Tudor architecture, Packwood is originally a 16th‐century manor house. Cromwell's general, Henry Ireton, slept here the night before the Battle of Edghill in 1642 and family tradition relates how Charles II was given food and drink at the house in 1651 following…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Robert Hooke designed Ragley in 1680. The Eighth Marquess of Hertford saw Graham Rust at work on a mural in Virginia and decided that he was the ideal artist to decorate the bare walls and ceilings of Ragley's South Staircase Hall. The Temptation was designed and…
Distance: 1 mile away

Snowshill is a Cotswold manor house with eclectic collection and Arts & Crafts‐style garden.Snowshill Manor contains Charles Paget Wade's extraordinary collection of craftmanship and design, including musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles, weavers' and spinners' tools and Japanese armour. Run on organic principles, the intimate garden is laid out…
Distance: 14.5 miles away