Wilmcote

Worth seeing in and around Wilmcote

6 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
   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.

   4 km · house museum, associated with William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Mary Arden's Farm

   Mary Arden's Farm, also known as Mary Arden's House or Glebe Farm, is the farmhouse of Mary Shakespeare, the mother of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Because of confusion about the actual house inhabited by Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, a nearby farm was conserved in the 20th century as "Mary Arden's Farm", but has been subsequently renamed Palmer's Farm.

   0 m · farmhouse and museum in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, associated with William Shakespeare · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   3.9 km · country house in Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   All Saints Church, Billesley

   All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Billesley, Warwickshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   2.1 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Edstone Aqueduct

   Edstone Aqueduct is one of three aqueducts on a 4-mile length of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in Warwickshire. At 475 feet, Edstone is the longest cast iron aqueduct in England.

   2.8 km · aqueduct in Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Stratford Armouries

   Stratford Armouries is a small museum attached to the Stratford-upon-Avon Lodge Retreat, a hotel offering cabin-based accommodation located near to the village of Snitterfield, approx 4 miles from Straford-upon-Avon town centre. It consists of three rooms, one housing a collection of Churchill memorabilia, one with a First World War trench scene and the remains of a Wellington bomber, and one with artefacts from the airborne operation on the bridge at Bénouville in Normandy, better known as the Pegasus Bridge.

   2.1 km · museum in Stratford-upon-Avon, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wilmcote

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 26 km · East Midlands (EMA), 74 km · London Luton (LTN), 103 km

Stations

Wilmcote railway station, 500 m · Bearley railway station, 2.8 km · Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway railway station, 2.6 km · RAF Snitterfield, 3.4 km

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wilmcote

  91 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
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• London → Wilmcote

  138 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £15–20
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• Luton, Luton → Wilmcote

  100 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
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