A mini guide to
Places worth your time in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Restored 16th-century half-timbered house where Shakespeare is believed to have been born in 1564, now a museum run by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Site of Shakespeare's last home, where he died in 1616. The house was pulled down in 1759; gardens now mark the plot.
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Twelve-roomed former farmhouse in Shottery, about a mile west of the centre, where Shakespeare's wife Anne grew up; set in gardens.
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Grade I listed home of Shakespeare's daughter Susanna and her physician husband John Hall, now a learning hub under conservation work.
Grade I listed riverside parish church where Shakespeare was baptised and buried, often called Shakespeare's Church.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's main riverside theatre, a thrust stage with more than 1,000 seats, reopened in 2010 after rebuilding.
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Smaller RSC theatre built into the Victorian Gothic shell of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which burned down in 1926.
RSC studio theatre on Southern Lane with 200 seats, rehearsal rooms and a café bar.
Medieval guildhall and the schoolroom where Shakespeare is thought to have learned in the 1570s, open to visitors.
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Chapel of 13th-century origins founded by the Guild of the Holy Cross, opposite New Place; Hugh Clopton paid for its enlargement.
Timber-framed house built in 1596 by Thomas Rogers, grandfather of John Harvard, benefactor of Harvard University. Seen from the street.
The Mechanical Art & Design Museum on Henley Street, showing kinetic art and automata; tickets do not need to be booked ahead.
Museum of Tudor life in the Shrieve's House on Sheep Street, suitable for all ages, which also runs evening ghost tours.
Heated tropical glasshouses south of the river with free-flying butterflies, plus insects and spiders in glass displays.
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Council-run gardens on the bank of the Avon in front of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Grade I listed late-medieval stone bridge of 14 pointed arches, at the old ford that gave Stratford its name; still carries traffic.
Stratford & Warwickshire
Warwickshire's county town, with its castle above the Avon and medieval streets
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A spa town of parks along the River Leam, the Royal Pump Rooms and the Parade
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A market town with the ruins of Kenilworth Castle and the open space of Abbey Fields
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