Places Associated with William Shakespeare - Stratford-Upon-Avon, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare Garden (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Stratford-upon-Avon, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare garden, King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon, Memorials to William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Globe, Shakespeare's Birthplace, The Huntington Library, Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's funerary monument, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, New Place, The Other Place, Hall's Croft, Nash's House, Mary Arden's Farm. Excerpt: Stratford-upon-Avon ( ) is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, 22 miles (35 km) south east of Birmingham and 8 miles (13 km) south west of Warwick. It is the largest and most populous town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon, which uses the term "on" to indicate that it covers a much larger area than the town itself. Four electoral wards make up the urban town of Stratford; Alveston, Avenue and New Town, Mount Pleasant and Guild and Hathaway. The estimated total population for those wards in 2007 was 25,505. The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world. The Royal Shakespeare Company resides in Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre, one of Britain's most important cultural venues. Stratford has Anglo-Saxon origins, and grew up as a market town in medieval times. The original charters of the town were granted in 1196, making Stratford officially over 800 years old. The name is a fusion of the Old English str t, meaning "street," and ford, meaning that a Roman road forded the River Avon at the site of the town. In 1769 the actor David Garrick staged a major Shakespeare Jubilee which saw the construction of a large rotunda and the influx of many visitors for the three day event. This contributed to the growing phenomeno...