Shottery

Worth seeing in and around Shottery

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Royal Shakespeare Theatre

   The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a Grade II* listed 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is located beside the River Avon in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon – Shakespeare's birthplace – in the English Midlands.

   1.2 km · theatre building in Stratford-upon-Avon, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon

   The Collegiate Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is often known simply as Holy Trinity Church or as Shakespeare's Church, due to its fame as the place of baptism and burial of William Shakespeare.

   700 m · church of England parish church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Shakespeare's Birthplace

   Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years. It is now a small museum open to the public and a popular visitor attraction, owned and managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

   1.3 km · Grade I listed birth house in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Shakespeare's funerary monument

   The Shakespeare funerary monument is a memorial to William Shakespeare located inside Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, the church in which Shakespeare was baptised and where he was buried in the chancel two days after his death. The monument, carved in pale blue limestone, is mounted on the north wall of the chancel.

   700 m · monument in Stratford-upon-Avon · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Anne Hathaway's Cottage

   Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed former farmhouse where Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child. It is situated in Shottery about 1 mile west of Stratford-upon-Avon town centre.

   1.3 km · house museum, associated with William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Swan Theatre

   The Swan Theatre is a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It is built on to the side of the larger Royal Shakespeare Theatre, occupying the Victorian Gothic structure that formerly housed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre that preceded the RST but was destroyed by fire in 1926.

   1.1 km · theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Harvard House

   Harvard House stands at what is now 26 High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, England. Once known as the Ancient House, It was built in 1596, by Thomas Rogers, grandfather of the benefactor of Harvard University, John Harvard, following the disastrous fires in 1594 and 1595 which destroyed much of the town centre.

   1.1 km · Grade I listed building in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Clopton Bridge

   The Clopton Bridge is a Late Medieval masonry arch bridge with 14 pointed arches, located in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, which spans the River Avon, crossing at the place where the river was forded in Saxon times, and which gave the town its name. The bridge is still in use carrying the A3400 road over the river, and is grade I listed.

   1.4 km · bridge in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Clopton House

   Clopton House is a 17th-century country mansion near Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, now converted into residential apartments. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   2.9 km · country house in Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Alscot Park

    Alscot Park is a Georgian country house in Preston on Stour, some 3 miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. It is Grade I listed and was built in a Rococo Gothic style for James West during the mid-18th century.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shottery

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 30 km · East Midlands (EMA), 77 km · London Luton (LTN), 98 km

Stations

Stratford-upon-Avon railway station, 1.2 km · Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway railway station, 2.8 km · Milcote railway station, 3.4 km

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Shottery

  93 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–14
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• London → Shottery

  134 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £15–20
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• Luton, Luton → Shottery

  96 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
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