Stratford Upon Avon
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Stratford-upon-Avon
This article is about the town in south Warwickshire. Hall, Rother Street. The Town Council is responsible for
For other uses, see Stratford.
crime prevention, cemeteries, public conveniences, litter,
river moorings, parks, grants via the Town Trust and the
Coordinates:
52°11′24″N 1°42′36″W / 52.19°N selection of the town’s mayor.
1.710°W
Stratford-upon-Avon (/ˌstrætfərd əpɒn ˈeɪvən/, known
locally as Stratford) 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 non-metropolitan district Stratfordon-Avon, which uses the term “on” rather than “upon” to
distinguish it from the town itself.[1] 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.[2]
3 Geography
Stratford is close to the Cotswolds, with Chipping Campden 10 miles (16 km) to the south. The Cotswolds was a
major sheep producing area, up until the latter part of the
19th century, with Stratford as one of its main centres for
the processing, marketing, and distribution of sheep and
wool. Consequently, Stratford also became a centre for
tanning during the 15th–17th centuries. Both the river
and the Roman road served as trade routes for the town.
Suburbs and areas of Stratford-on-Avon include Shottery,
The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its sta- Bishopton, Bridgetown, Tiddington, and Old Town.
tus as birthplace of English playwright and poet William
Shakespeare, and receives an estimated 4.9 million vis3.1 Climate
itors a year.[3] The Royal Shakespeare Company resides
in Stratford’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
1
History
Stratford has Anglo-Saxon origins, and developed as a
market town during the medieval period. The original
charters of the town were granted in 1196, making Stratford over 800 years old. The name is a combination of
the Old English strǣt, meaning “street”, and ford, indicat- Inland summer cloud development, July 2010, Stratford is deing a site at which a road forded a river. The “street” was noted by the yellow dot.
a smaller Roman road connecting the larger roads Fosse
Way and Icknield Street.
Stratford has a temperate maritime climate, as is usual for
In 1769 the actor David Garrick staged a major the British Isles, meaning extremes of heat and cold are
Shakespeare Jubilee over three days which saw the con- rare. Sunshine hours are low to moderate (less than 1,400
struction of a large rotunda and the influx of many vis- hours per year), and rainfall is spread evenly throughout
itors. This contributed to the growing phenomenon of the year.
Bardolatry which made Stratford a tourist destination.
The record high temperature is 35.7 °C (96.3 °F), set in
August 1990, compared to the typical summer maximum
of 22 °C (72 °F). The record low temperature is −21.0 °C
(−5.8 °F), recorded in January 1982. With an average of
2 Governance
62[4] frosts a year, Stratford is a relatively frosty location.
The administrative body for the town is the Stratford- For comparison, nearby Wellesbourne averages 53 frosts
upon-Avon Town Council, which is based at the Town a year, and further afield, Malvern, just 33.
Hall in Sheep Street. The Stratford-on-Avon District As with much of inland Britain, Stratford experiences
Council is based at Elizabeth House, Church Street, and much cloud development, while coastal areas remain
the Stratford-upon-Avon Town Trust is based in the Civic clear (see image to the right).
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4 ECONOMY
Rainfall, at around 620 mm (24 in) is typical for low lying
areas of central and eastern England. Over 1 mm of rain
was recorded on 115.7 days per year,[4] according to the
1971–2000 observation period.
4
Economy
Historic map from 1908
Nash’s House, and the gardens of New Place
Stratford-upon-Avon’s Clock Tower
Apart from tourism, which is a major employer, especially in the hotel, hospitality industry and catering sectors, other industries in the town include boat building and
maintenance, bicycles, mechanical and electrical engineering, food manufacture, Information Technology, call Shakespeare’s Birthplace
centre and service sector activities, a large motor sales
sector, industrial plant hire, building suppliers, market
gardening, farming, storage and transport logistics, fi- 4.1 Tourism
nance and insurance, and a large retail sector.
Major employers in the town include the NFU Mutual Insurance Company (and Avon Insurance), AMEC, Sitel,
Tesco, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, B &
Q and Pashley Cycles. There are, nominally, three theatres run by the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company,
which attract large audiences and income for the town.
The regular large influx of tourists is the major source
of the town’s prosperity. Stratford is a major English
tourist town due to it being the birthplace of William
Shakespeare, who many consider the greatest playwright
of all time.[6] In 2010 the District Council spent £298,000
on tourism promotion[7] and supports an official open-
3
5 Main sights and attractions
5.1 Theatre
The first real theatre in Stratford was a temporary wooden
affair built in 1769 by the actor David Garrick for his
Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of that year to mark
Shakespeare’s birthday. The theatre, built not far from
the site of the present Royal Shakespeare Theatre, was
almost washed away in two days of torrential rain that resulted in terrible flooding.
Hall’s Croft
A small theatre known as the Royal Shakespeare Rooms
was built in the gardens of Shakespeare’s New Place
home in the early 19th century but became derelict by
the 1860s.
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth
in 1864 the brewer, Charles Edward Flower, instigated
the building of a temporary wooden theatre, known as
the Tercentenary Theatre, which was built in a part of
the brewer’s large gardens on what is today the site of
the new, and temporary, Courtyard Theatre. After three
months the Tercentenary Theatre was dismantled, with
the timber used for house-building purposes.
In the early 1870s, Charles Flower gave several acres of
riverside land to the local council on the understanding
that a permanent theatre be built in honour of Shakespeare’s memory, and by 1879 the first Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre had been completed. It proved to be
a huge success, and by the early 20th century was effecAnne Hathaway’s Cottage, once the home of Shakespeare’s wife’s
tively being run by the actor/manager Frank Benson, later
family.
Sir Frank Benson.
The theatre burned down in 1926, with the then artistic director, William Bridges-Adams, moving all productions to the local cinema.
An architectural competition was arranged to elicit designs for a new theatre, with the winner, English architect
Elisabeth Scott, creating what we see on the riverside today. The new theatre, adjoining what was left of the old
theatre, was opened by the then Prince of Wales, later
Edward VIII, in 1932.
The new theatre had many illustrious artistic directors,
including the actor Anthony Quayle.
Sir Peter Hall was appointed artistic director (designate)
in 1959, and formed the Royal Shakespeare Company
(RSC) in 1961.
Swan Theatre
top tour bus service. In 2010 Stratford-on-Avon District
Council launched a re-branded official tourism website
for the Stratford area called Discover Stratford[8] after
opening a new tourist information centre on Henley Street
in May 2010,[9] which has since moved back to the original location on Bridgefoot.[10]
Swan Theatre was created in the 1980s out of the shell
of the remains of the original Memorial Theatre, quickly
becoming one of the finest acting spaces in the UK.
In 1986, Stratford-upon-Avon became home to the legendary but ill-fated Carrie.
The Waterside Theatre (which is not part of the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre complex) re-opened in December
2004, then closed again in September 2008. During
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5 MAIN SIGHTS AND ATTRACTIONS
this span, the theatre housed the Shakespearience visi- 1564 the birthplace of his son William. According to a
tor attraction.[11] This has now been turned into the Clore descriptive placard provided for tourists there,
Learning Centre, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s education and events venue.
“The property remained in the ownerThe town is located on the River Avon (afon or avon being
a Celtic synonym of “river”), on a bank of which stands
the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) designed by the
English architect Elisabeth Scott and completed in 1932,
which is the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Until recently the RSC also ran two smaller theatres, the
Swan Theatre, which is modelled on an Elizabethan theatre (closed in August 2007 as part of plans for refurbishment) and The Other Place theatre, a Black box theatre which was extended to become the temporary RSC
Courtyard Theatre, which opened in July 2006. This
theatre was the home of the RSC while the RST was
being refurbished; its interior is similar to the interior
of the refurbished RST. The RST and Swan refurbishment has been completed and the RST and Swan theatres re-opened in November 2010. It is anticipated that
the Courtyard Theatre extension may be dismantled, although many in the town would retain the Courtyard so
that it can used by local theatre companies.
Other tourist attractions within the town include five
houses relating to Shakespeare’s life, which are owned
and cared for by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. These
include Hall’s Croft (the one-time home of Shakespeare’s
daughter, Susanna, and her husband Dr. John Hall) and
Nash’s House, which stands alongside the site of another property, New Place, owned by Shakespeare himself, wherein he died. Near to the town are Anne Hathaway’s Cottage at Shottery, the home of Shakespeare’s
wife's family prior to her marriage, and Mary Arden’s
House (Palmer’s Farm), the family home of his mother.
Elsewhere in the district are farms and buildings at
Snitterfield, that belonged to the family of Shakespeare’s
father.
At the top end of Waterside is Holy Trinity Church, where
Shakespeare was baptised and is buried.
Non-Shakespearean attractions include the Stratford Butterfly Farm, which is on the eastern side of the river
and the Bancroft Gardens and Stratford Armouries located three miles (4.8 km) from the centre of Stratford
on Gospel Oak Lane.
ship of Shakespeare’s direct descendants until 1670, when his granddaughter, Elizabeth
Barnard, died. As she had no children, Elizabeth left the estate to her relative Thomas Hart,
Shakespeare’s great-nephew. The main house
became a tenanted inn called the Maidenhead
(later the Swan and Maidenhead) following the
death of John Shakespeare in 1601. Members
of the Hart family continued living in the small
adjoining cottage throughout the century.”
At the end of the 19th century, Edward Gibbs “renovated”
the building to more closely represent the original Tudor
farmhouse. Adjacent to Shakespeare’s Birthplace stands
the Shakespeare Centre, completed in 1964 and not far
from the Carnegie Library, opened in 1905.
The large half-timbered building which now comprises
numbers 19, 20 and 21 was formerly the White Lion
Inn.[12] It is first mentioned in 1603.[13] and was adjoined
on the east by a smaller inn called the “Swan”. In 1745 the
latter was purchased by John Payton, who also acquired
the “Lion” five years later and rebuilt the whole premises
on a greatly enlarged scale. (Cal. of Trust Title Deeds,
no. 147.) The work was completed by James Collins
of Birmingham, builder, in 1753. (Contract, Trust Title
Deeds, no. 167.) Payton “brought the house into great
vogue”[14] though Byng in 1792 complained that “at the
noted White Lion, I met with nothing but incivility” (cited
from Torrington Diaries (ed. Andrews), iii, 152).[12] Payton was succeeded as innkeeper by his son John, and its
reputation as one of the best inns on the Holyhead road
must have contributed not a little to the prosperity of the
town. Garrick stayed at the “White Lion” during the Jubilee of 1769 (Saunders MSS. 82, fol. 20)[12] and George
IV, as Prince Regent, visited it when he came to Stratford
in 1806.[15] Its great days came to an end after John Payton the younger sold it to Thomas Arkell in 1823.[12] The
building is now home to the Enchanted Manor Museum at
the Creaky Cauldron and Magic Alley; the Box Brownie
Café; Doug Brown’s Really Good Gift Company; and the
Not Just Shakespeare Tourist Information Centre.
Each year on 12 October (unless this is a Sunday, in which
Henley Street is now a major tourist and shopping precinct
case 11 October) Stratford hosts one of the largest mop
with many al fresco cafés and street entertainers.
fairs in the country. Then, on the second Saturday following, the smaller Runaway fair is held.
5.3 Sheep Street
5.2
Henley Street
Henley Street, one of the town’s oldest streets, underwent substantial architectural change between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. John Shakespeare's large
half-timbered dwelling, purchased by him in 1556, was in
Sheep Street runs from Ely Street eastwards to the Waterside. It was a residential quarter in the 16th century, some
of the buildings were rebuilt following the fire of 1595,
although many, such as Number 40, date from 1480. Formerly a two story building that was extended in the early
twentieth century has a lower story of substantial close-set
5.6
Supermarkets
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studding: the upper is of more widely spaced thin vertical or simply “The Maybird”, is a large shopping centre[19]
timbers.[16]
situated on Birmingham Road, approximately a fiveAs the name suggests Sheep Street, which leads down minute drive from the town centre, which features nuused part of the town.
from the Town Hall to Waterside and the RST, was from merous shops and is a very well
[20]
Shops
featured
at
the
Maybird
include Asda Living,
early times and until the late 19th century, the area where
B&Q,
Argos,
Pizza
Hut,
WHSmith,
Subway, Jollyes,
sheep, brought from the neighbouring Cotswold Hills,
Boots,
M&S,
Sports
Direct,
New
Look,
Outfit, Next and
were slaughtered and butchered. Today it is the restauCosta
Coffee,
the
latter
of
which
is
the
second Costa
rant centre of the town.
Coffee shop in Stratford, with another located on Henley
The Shrieves House is one of the oldest still lived in Street. A large Tesco supermarket is located next to the
houses in the town and Shakespeare is said to have Maybird,[21] behind B&Q. On the same road is a smaller
based his character of Sir John Falstaff on one of Aldi store.
the residents, his godson’s uncle. Oliver Cromwell is
thought to have stayed here in 1651. He wrote a Directly opposite the Maybird, on the other side of
letter from the town to Lord Wharton on 27 August Birmingham Road, is Maybrook Industrial Estate, a
1651,<ref name='Cromwell’s Letters’>Carlyle, Robert smaller shopping centre which includes stores such as
(1861). Oliver Cromwell’s letters and speeches: with elu- Staples, Carphone Warehouse, Maplin Electronics and
cidations, Volume 3, page 86 “The War with Scotland”. Carpetright.
Bernhard Tauchnitz. ISBN 1-4021-7719-4.</ref> before The Rosebird Centre is a much smaller shopping centre
the Battle of Worcester.
located on Shipston Road and contains a large Waitrose
[22]
Pets Corner[23] pet shop and Rosebird
Behind The Shrieves House is a museum called “Tudor supermarket,
World” with recreations of 16th century life in theatrical Centre Pharmacy. The pharmacy also serves as a medical centre, acting as a branch of the main Rother House
settings.
Medical Centre on Alcester Road.[24] An Avonvale VetJust off Sheep Street is Shrieves walk, a very quaint walk- erinary Centre is soon to open in Rosebird Centre.[25]
way with several small independent stores, including a
Vintage Clothing shop.
5.6 Supermarkets
5.4
Waterside & Southern Lane
This area of Stratford, which runs from the foot of Bridge
Street to Holy Trinity Church (and leads directly off
Sheep Street and Chapel Lane) runs alongside the River
Avon and offers access to the Waterside Theatre and all
areas of the RST.
The Bancroft Gardens and river area is a very popular
place for people watching, enjoying picnics and river activities. In the summer the River Avon is busy with rowing boats, motor boats and river cruises. The Birmingham to Stratford Canal is busy with colourful narrowboats passing through or mooring up in the canal basin
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. There are often jugglers,
fire-eaters and magicians entertaining the public on the
lawns. On the edge of the gardens is a water fountain,
known as the Swan Fountain. It was unveiled in 1996
by the Queen Elizabeth II to recognise that Stratford has
been a market town since 1196. It is from here the
Stratford Town Walk meet every day (even Christmas
Day), to offer a guided walking tour of the town. The
tour passes the Shakespeare houses, Royal Shakespeare
Theatres, 15th century timber-framed buildings, William
Shakespeare’s school and visits Holy Trinity Church.
The town has a number of supermarkets, including
Tesco[21] on Birmingham Road, Aldi on Canners Way[26]
(just off Birmingham Road), Morrisons on Alcester
Road,[27] Marks & Spencer on Bridge Street[28] (plus
M&S Simply Food in Maybird Shopping Park, Birmingham Road[29] ) and Waitrose at The Rosebird Centre on
Shipston Road. A small Sainsbury’s store is located on
Bridge Street.[30]
6 Transport
Stratford is 22 miles (35 km) from the UK’s second
largest city, Birmingham, and is easily accessible from
junction 15 of the M40 motorway. The 7 miles (11 km)
£12 million Stratford Northern Bypass opened in June
1987 as the A422.
Stratford-upon-Avon railway station has good rail links
from Birmingham (Snow Hill station, Moor Street station) and from London, with up to seven direct trains
a day from London Marylebone. Stratford-upon-Avon
Parkway railway station opened on 19 May 2013 to the
north of the town.
The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society aims to re-open the closed railway line from
Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne, with a later exApart from the town centre, Maybird Shopping Park, tension to Broadway, Worcestershire. The Honeybourne
usually referred to locally as “The Maybird Centre”[17][18] Line is being extended towards Honeybourne from
5.5
Shopping centres
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Cheltenham Racecourse to connect with the Cotswold
Line. The Cotswold trains run by First Great Western go to Worcester Shrub Hill, Worcester Foregate
Street, Great Malvern and Hereford westwards and eastwards to Oxford, Reading and London Paddington. Rail
passengers currently have a very long and inconvenient journey via Birmingham Moor Street (changing
here for Birmingham New Street) or continuing on via
Birmingham Snow Hill, and onwards to reach Worcester
Shrub Hill and places westwards. Rail passengers heading
eastwards to Oxford and Reading would have to change
trains at Banbury. The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland
Junction Railway connected Stratford with the main line
of the London and North Western Railway at Blisworth
until passenger trains were withdrawn in 1952.[31]
NOTABLE PEOPLE
there are many primary schools, including St. Gregory’s
Catholic Primary School, Stratford-upon-Avon Primary
School (often known locally as “Broad Street” due to its
location), Bishopton Primary School, Willows C of E Primary School and Thomas Jolyffe Primary School both
state and independent, as well as Stratford-upon-Avon
College.
8 Sport
Stratford-upon-Avon Cricket Club Ground is by the river
opposite the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The first match
recorded there was in 1880; it has hosted first-class games
since 1951 and women’s One Day Internationals since
The town has numerous cycle paths, and is the termi- 2005. Stratford Town F.C. are based at the DCS Stanus of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal where it meets the dium in Tiddington; they won the Midland Alliance in
Avon. A park and ride scheme was launched in 2006. the 2012/3 season and were promoted to Division One
The Stratford Greenway is a 5 miles (8.0 km) traffic free South & West of the Southern Football League.
cycle path, which used to be part of the rail network until
the early 1960s and is now part of the Sustrans National
Cycle Network (routes NCR 5 and NCR 41). Starting
9 Churches
from town it heads along the river and racecourse towards
Welford-on-Avon and Long Marston with a cycle hire and
• Stratford-upon-Avon Holy Trinity Church
cafe available at the start of the Greenway at Seven Meadows Road.
• St Gregory’s Catholic Church
The manually powered chain ferry, Malvolio, was opened
• St Andrew’s Church Shottery
in 1937 and runs between Holy Trinity Church and the
Royal Shakespeare Theatres. It was the last of its kind to
• Stratford-upon-Avon United Reformed Church
be built in Britain.[32] Plans were announced in 2006 to
[33]
move it along the river to make space for a new bridge.
• Stratford-upon-Avon Methodist Church
The vessel was restored in 2010.[34]
Birmingham airport is 18 miles (29 km) to the northwest, with scheduled flights to many national and international destinations.
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Education
10 Notable people
With the RSC in the town many famous actors have at
some point lived or stayed in the town or surrounding villages. Some of these include,
Stratford is also home to several institutions set up for the
study of Shakespeare, including the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which holds books and documents related to
the playwright, and the Shakespeare Institute.
• William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet.
William Shakespeare is believed to have studied at King
Edward VI school. It is an all-boys school, and one
of the few remaining grammar schools in England, selecting its pupils exclusively using the Eleven plus examination. There is also an all-girls grammar school,
Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, colloquially known as 'Shottery School' after its location in
the village of Shottery, a short distance from the town
centre. Finally, there is a non-selective secondary school,
Stratford-upon-Avon High School, formerly known as the
Hugh Clopton Secondary Modern School, which was demolished to make way for the new high school. There
are no independent secondary schools in the town, but
• Simon Pegg, actor, studied at Stratford-upon-Avon
College (was born in Gloucestershire, UK)
• Sarah Douglas, actress, best known for her film and
TV career, was born and raised in the town.
• Jeffery Dench, actor, lived just outside Stratford in
Clifford Chambers until his death in 2014
• David Bradley, actor known for his role in the Harry
Potter films
• Labour MP and actor Andrew Faulds lived in Old
Town, Stratford, until his death in 2000, aged 77
• Marc Elliot actor, played Syed Masood on BBC
EastEnders
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Other notable residents include
• The historic Stratford family (who took their name
from the town)
• Adrian Newey, famous Formula 1 engineer.
• George Macaulay Trevelyan, historian
• J. B. Priestley died here.
• Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey,
served with the RAF at Stratford-upon-Avon during the 1940s. Clarke later wrote the short story
"The Curse", which takes place in a post-apocalyptic
Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Former Secretary of State for War John Profumo
was the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon 1950-1963.
• From 1901 to 1924, the romantic novelist Marie
Corelli, real name Minnie Mackay, daughter of
Charles Mackay, made her home, with her companion Miss Vyver, at Mason’s Croft, Church Street,
Stratford.
• Craig Charles, actor, presenter and DJ known for
playing Dave Lister in Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in Coronation Street has lived in Stratford.
• David Domoney, gardener, co-host of Love Your
Garden, lives in Stratford
11 Town twinning
•
Stratford, Ontario
•
Stratford, Prince Edward Island
•
Stratford, New Zealand
•
Doha, Qatar
•
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia
12 Notes
[1] “Stratford-on-Avon District Council: Living in the District”. Stratford.gov.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
• English footballer Dion Dublin, who has played for
Manchester United, Aston Villa, and Coventry City,
as well as the national team, lives with his wife and
family in Stratford.
[2] “2009 Ward Population Estimates for England and Wales,
mid-2007”. Office for National Statistics, neighbourhood
statistics. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
• Simon Gilbert and Neil Codling of the band Suede
lived and were educated in Stratford.
[3] “Stratford District Council Report - Controlling the location, scale and mix of development” (PDF). Retrieved 31
May 2013.
• Members of indie bands Klaxons and Pull Tiger Tail
all grew up and went to schools in Stratford before
they moved to New Cross, London.
• W. W. Quatremain, local landscape painter
• Gordon Ramsay, noted celebrity chef, and star of
several cooking related shows, moved to StratfordUpon-Avon with his family in 1976 when he was ten
years old.
• Brad Moran, a former Australian Rules Footballer,
grew up in Stratford before moving to Australia
when he was 15.
• Andrew Pozzi, 110m hurdler born in Stratfordupon-Avon.
• Authors Julia Suzuki and Annie Sanders both work
and live in Stratford-Upon-Avon
• John Krasinski studied at The Royal Shakespeare
Company.
[4] “1971-00 averages”. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
[5] “Climate Normals 1971–2000”. MetOffice. Retrieved 1
March 2011.
[6] “William Shakespeare”. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 May
2015.
[7] Stratford District Council still committed to tourism Media
release, 31 March 2010
[8] Stratford District Council launches new initiatives to promote tourism Media release, 8 November 2010
[9] Tourist Office Opens Media release, 12 May 2010
[10] Stratford Tourist Information Centre moving back to
Bridgefoot Media release 19 October 2011
[11] “Theatre shuts in Shakespeare town”. BBC News. 4
September 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2008.
[12] The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Introduction and architectural description in British History Online, A History
of the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred (1945), pp. 221–234. (Date accessed: 23 August
2009.)
• Quentin Willson, motoring expert, journalist and
ex-Top Gear presenter, lives in Stratford
[13] Book of Orders (Misc. Corporation Rec. unbound, xli,
• Patrick Robinson, Casualty actor and Strictly Come
Dancing contestant, lives in Stratford
no. 2)
[14] Graves R, The Spiritual Quixote bk. xii, ch. 10
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[15] Graves R, The Spiritual Quixote bk. xii, ch. 10, pages
586–7
[16] From: 'The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Introduction and architectural description', A History of the
County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred
(1945), pp. 221–234. URL: http://www.british-history.
ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57015 Date accessed: 23 August 2009. From: 'The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon:
Introduction and architectural description', A History of
the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred
(1945), pp. 221–234. URL: http://www.british-history.
ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57015 Date accessed: 12
June 2009.
[17] http://www.sportsdirect.com/
stratforduponavon-store-0265
[18] http://www.boots.com/en/Store-Locator/
Boots-Stratford-Upon-Avon-The-Maybird-Centre/
[19] http://maybirdshopping.co.uk/contact/
[20] http://maybirdshopping.co.uk/the-park/
[21] http://www.tesco.com/store-locator/uk/?bID=3212
[22] http://www.waitrose.com/stratforduponavon
[23] http://www.petscorner.co.uk/stratford-upon-avon
[24] http://www.rotherhouse.org.uk/Contact
[25] http://www.avonvets.co.uk/stratford-surgery
[26] http://www.iopeningtimes.co.uk/Aldi/
Stratford-Upon-Avon/
[27] http://your.morrisons.com/store-finder/store-details/
?recordid=263
[28] http://www.opening-times.co.uk/
marks-and-spencer-stratford-upon-avon
[29] http://www.shopping-time.co.uk/CV37/Alderminster/
M-S-Stratford-Upon-Avon-Maybird-RP-Simply-Food-Maybird-Retail-Park-Birmingham-Road,
23076.html
[30] http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/storelocator/
storelocator_detail_view.jsp?bmForm=store_
details&back_page_name=showMoreStores&
storeid=4915&latitude=52.1922641163&
longitude=$-$1.7049537728&townName=
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON&isJavaScriptEnabled=
true
[31] “Warwickshire Railways”.
[32] “Shakespeare’s Stratford, Warwickshire”. The Guardian.
6 June 2009.
[33] “Bridge plan puts ferry on move”. Coventry Telegraph. 14
March 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
[34] “Stratford-upon-Avon chain ferry service resumes”. BBC.
29 March 2010.
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This article is about the town in south Warwickshire. Hall, Rother Street. The Town Council is responsible for
For other uses, see Stratford.
crime prevention, cemeteries, public conveniences, litter,
river moorings, parks, grants via the Town Trust and the
Coordinates:
52°11′24″N 1°42′36″W / 52.19°N selection of the town’s mayor.
1.710°W
Stratford-upon-Avon (/ˌstrætfərd əpɒn ˈeɪvən/, known
locally as Stratford) 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 non-metropolitan district Stratfordon-Avon, which uses the term “on” rather than “upon” to
distinguish it from the town itself.[1] 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.[2]
3 Geography
Stratford is close to the Cotswolds, with Chipping Campden 10 miles (16 km) to the south. The Cotswolds was a
major sheep producing area, up until the latter part of the
19th century, with Stratford as one of its main centres for
the processing, marketing, and distribution of sheep and
wool. Consequently, Stratford also became a centre for
tanning during the 15th–17th centuries. Both the river
and the Roman road served as trade routes for the town.
Suburbs and areas of Stratford-on-Avon include Shottery,
The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its sta- Bishopton, Bridgetown, Tiddington, and Old Town.
tus as birthplace of English playwright and poet William
Shakespeare, and receives an estimated 4.9 million vis3.1 Climate
itors a year.[3] The Royal Shakespeare Company resides
in Stratford’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
1
History
Stratford has Anglo-Saxon origins, and developed as a
market town during the medieval period. The original
charters of the town were granted in 1196, making Stratford over 800 years old. The name is a combination of
the Old English strǣt, meaning “street”, and ford, indicat- Inland summer cloud development, July 2010, Stratford is deing a site at which a road forded a river. The “street” was noted by the yellow dot.
a smaller Roman road connecting the larger roads Fosse
Way and Icknield Street.
Stratford has a temperate maritime climate, as is usual for
In 1769 the actor David Garrick staged a major the British Isles, meaning extremes of heat and cold are
Shakespeare Jubilee over three days which saw the con- rare. Sunshine hours are low to moderate (less than 1,400
struction of a large rotunda and the influx of many vis- hours per year), and rainfall is spread evenly throughout
itors. This contributed to the growing phenomenon of the year.
Bardolatry which made Stratford a tourist destination.
The record high temperature is 35.7 °C (96.3 °F), set in
August 1990, compared to the typical summer maximum
of 22 °C (72 °F). The record low temperature is −21.0 °C
(−5.8 °F), recorded in January 1982. With an average of
2 Governance
62[4] frosts a year, Stratford is a relatively frosty location.
The administrative body for the town is the Stratford- For comparison, nearby Wellesbourne averages 53 frosts
upon-Avon Town Council, which is based at the Town a year, and further afield, Malvern, just 33.
Hall in Sheep Street. The Stratford-on-Avon District As with much of inland Britain, Stratford experiences
Council is based at Elizabeth House, Church Street, and much cloud development, while coastal areas remain
the Stratford-upon-Avon Town Trust is based in the Civic clear (see image to the right).
1
2
4 ECONOMY
Rainfall, at around 620 mm (24 in) is typical for low lying
areas of central and eastern England. Over 1 mm of rain
was recorded on 115.7 days per year,[4] according to the
1971–2000 observation period.
4
Economy
Historic map from 1908
Nash’s House, and the gardens of New Place
Stratford-upon-Avon’s Clock Tower
Apart from tourism, which is a major employer, especially in the hotel, hospitality industry and catering sectors, other industries in the town include boat building and
maintenance, bicycles, mechanical and electrical engineering, food manufacture, Information Technology, call Shakespeare’s Birthplace
centre and service sector activities, a large motor sales
sector, industrial plant hire, building suppliers, market
gardening, farming, storage and transport logistics, fi- 4.1 Tourism
nance and insurance, and a large retail sector.
Major employers in the town include the NFU Mutual Insurance Company (and Avon Insurance), AMEC, Sitel,
Tesco, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, B &
Q and Pashley Cycles. There are, nominally, three theatres run by the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company,
which attract large audiences and income for the town.
The regular large influx of tourists is the major source
of the town’s prosperity. Stratford is a major English
tourist town due to it being the birthplace of William
Shakespeare, who many consider the greatest playwright
of all time.[6] In 2010 the District Council spent £298,000
on tourism promotion[7] and supports an official open-
3
5 Main sights and attractions
5.1 Theatre
The first real theatre in Stratford was a temporary wooden
affair built in 1769 by the actor David Garrick for his
Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of that year to mark
Shakespeare’s birthday. The theatre, built not far from
the site of the present Royal Shakespeare Theatre, was
almost washed away in two days of torrential rain that resulted in terrible flooding.
Hall’s Croft
A small theatre known as the Royal Shakespeare Rooms
was built in the gardens of Shakespeare’s New Place
home in the early 19th century but became derelict by
the 1860s.
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth
in 1864 the brewer, Charles Edward Flower, instigated
the building of a temporary wooden theatre, known as
the Tercentenary Theatre, which was built in a part of
the brewer’s large gardens on what is today the site of
the new, and temporary, Courtyard Theatre. After three
months the Tercentenary Theatre was dismantled, with
the timber used for house-building purposes.
In the early 1870s, Charles Flower gave several acres of
riverside land to the local council on the understanding
that a permanent theatre be built in honour of Shakespeare’s memory, and by 1879 the first Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre had been completed. It proved to be
a huge success, and by the early 20th century was effecAnne Hathaway’s Cottage, once the home of Shakespeare’s wife’s
tively being run by the actor/manager Frank Benson, later
family.
Sir Frank Benson.
The theatre burned down in 1926, with the then artistic director, William Bridges-Adams, moving all productions to the local cinema.
An architectural competition was arranged to elicit designs for a new theatre, with the winner, English architect
Elisabeth Scott, creating what we see on the riverside today. The new theatre, adjoining what was left of the old
theatre, was opened by the then Prince of Wales, later
Edward VIII, in 1932.
The new theatre had many illustrious artistic directors,
including the actor Anthony Quayle.
Sir Peter Hall was appointed artistic director (designate)
in 1959, and formed the Royal Shakespeare Company
(RSC) in 1961.
Swan Theatre
top tour bus service. In 2010 Stratford-on-Avon District
Council launched a re-branded official tourism website
for the Stratford area called Discover Stratford[8] after
opening a new tourist information centre on Henley Street
in May 2010,[9] which has since moved back to the original location on Bridgefoot.[10]
Swan Theatre was created in the 1980s out of the shell
of the remains of the original Memorial Theatre, quickly
becoming one of the finest acting spaces in the UK.
In 1986, Stratford-upon-Avon became home to the legendary but ill-fated Carrie.
The Waterside Theatre (which is not part of the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre complex) re-opened in December
2004, then closed again in September 2008. During
4
5 MAIN SIGHTS AND ATTRACTIONS
this span, the theatre housed the Shakespearience visi- 1564 the birthplace of his son William. According to a
tor attraction.[11] This has now been turned into the Clore descriptive placard provided for tourists there,
Learning Centre, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s education and events venue.
“The property remained in the ownerThe town is located on the River Avon (afon or avon being
a Celtic synonym of “river”), on a bank of which stands
the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) designed by the
English architect Elisabeth Scott and completed in 1932,
which is the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Until recently the RSC also ran two smaller theatres, the
Swan Theatre, which is modelled on an Elizabethan theatre (closed in August 2007 as part of plans for refurbishment) and The Other Place theatre, a Black box theatre which was extended to become the temporary RSC
Courtyard Theatre, which opened in July 2006. This
theatre was the home of the RSC while the RST was
being refurbished; its interior is similar to the interior
of the refurbished RST. The RST and Swan refurbishment has been completed and the RST and Swan theatres re-opened in November 2010. It is anticipated that
the Courtyard Theatre extension may be dismantled, although many in the town would retain the Courtyard so
that it can used by local theatre companies.
Other tourist attractions within the town include five
houses relating to Shakespeare’s life, which are owned
and cared for by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. These
include Hall’s Croft (the one-time home of Shakespeare’s
daughter, Susanna, and her husband Dr. John Hall) and
Nash’s House, which stands alongside the site of another property, New Place, owned by Shakespeare himself, wherein he died. Near to the town are Anne Hathaway’s Cottage at Shottery, the home of Shakespeare’s
wife's family prior to her marriage, and Mary Arden’s
House (Palmer’s Farm), the family home of his mother.
Elsewhere in the district are farms and buildings at
Snitterfield, that belonged to the family of Shakespeare’s
father.
At the top end of Waterside is Holy Trinity Church, where
Shakespeare was baptised and is buried.
Non-Shakespearean attractions include the Stratford Butterfly Farm, which is on the eastern side of the river
and the Bancroft Gardens and Stratford Armouries located three miles (4.8 km) from the centre of Stratford
on Gospel Oak Lane.
ship of Shakespeare’s direct descendants until 1670, when his granddaughter, Elizabeth
Barnard, died. As she had no children, Elizabeth left the estate to her relative Thomas Hart,
Shakespeare’s great-nephew. The main house
became a tenanted inn called the Maidenhead
(later the Swan and Maidenhead) following the
death of John Shakespeare in 1601. Members
of the Hart family continued living in the small
adjoining cottage throughout the century.”
At the end of the 19th century, Edward Gibbs “renovated”
the building to more closely represent the original Tudor
farmhouse. Adjacent to Shakespeare’s Birthplace stands
the Shakespeare Centre, completed in 1964 and not far
from the Carnegie Library, opened in 1905.
The large half-timbered building which now comprises
numbers 19, 20 and 21 was formerly the White Lion
Inn.[12] It is first mentioned in 1603.[13] and was adjoined
on the east by a smaller inn called the “Swan”. In 1745 the
latter was purchased by John Payton, who also acquired
the “Lion” five years later and rebuilt the whole premises
on a greatly enlarged scale. (Cal. of Trust Title Deeds,
no. 147.) The work was completed by James Collins
of Birmingham, builder, in 1753. (Contract, Trust Title
Deeds, no. 167.) Payton “brought the house into great
vogue”[14] though Byng in 1792 complained that “at the
noted White Lion, I met with nothing but incivility” (cited
from Torrington Diaries (ed. Andrews), iii, 152).[12] Payton was succeeded as innkeeper by his son John, and its
reputation as one of the best inns on the Holyhead road
must have contributed not a little to the prosperity of the
town. Garrick stayed at the “White Lion” during the Jubilee of 1769 (Saunders MSS. 82, fol. 20)[12] and George
IV, as Prince Regent, visited it when he came to Stratford
in 1806.[15] Its great days came to an end after John Payton the younger sold it to Thomas Arkell in 1823.[12] The
building is now home to the Enchanted Manor Museum at
the Creaky Cauldron and Magic Alley; the Box Brownie
Café; Doug Brown’s Really Good Gift Company; and the
Not Just Shakespeare Tourist Information Centre.
Each year on 12 October (unless this is a Sunday, in which
Henley Street is now a major tourist and shopping precinct
case 11 October) Stratford hosts one of the largest mop
with many al fresco cafés and street entertainers.
fairs in the country. Then, on the second Saturday following, the smaller Runaway fair is held.
5.3 Sheep Street
5.2
Henley Street
Henley Street, one of the town’s oldest streets, underwent substantial architectural change between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. John Shakespeare's large
half-timbered dwelling, purchased by him in 1556, was in
Sheep Street runs from Ely Street eastwards to the Waterside. It was a residential quarter in the 16th century, some
of the buildings were rebuilt following the fire of 1595,
although many, such as Number 40, date from 1480. Formerly a two story building that was extended in the early
twentieth century has a lower story of substantial close-set
5.6
Supermarkets
5
studding: the upper is of more widely spaced thin vertical or simply “The Maybird”, is a large shopping centre[19]
timbers.[16]
situated on Birmingham Road, approximately a fiveAs the name suggests Sheep Street, which leads down minute drive from the town centre, which features nuused part of the town.
from the Town Hall to Waterside and the RST, was from merous shops and is a very well
[20]
Shops
featured
at
the
Maybird
include Asda Living,
early times and until the late 19th century, the area where
B&Q,
Argos,
Pizza
Hut,
WHSmith,
Subway, Jollyes,
sheep, brought from the neighbouring Cotswold Hills,
Boots,
M&S,
Sports
Direct,
New
Look,
Outfit, Next and
were slaughtered and butchered. Today it is the restauCosta
Coffee,
the
latter
of
which
is
the
second Costa
rant centre of the town.
Coffee shop in Stratford, with another located on Henley
The Shrieves House is one of the oldest still lived in Street. A large Tesco supermarket is located next to the
houses in the town and Shakespeare is said to have Maybird,[21] behind B&Q. On the same road is a smaller
based his character of Sir John Falstaff on one of Aldi store.
the residents, his godson’s uncle. Oliver Cromwell is
thought to have stayed here in 1651. He wrote a Directly opposite the Maybird, on the other side of
letter from the town to Lord Wharton on 27 August Birmingham Road, is Maybrook Industrial Estate, a
1651,<ref name='Cromwell’s Letters’>Carlyle, Robert smaller shopping centre which includes stores such as
(1861). Oliver Cromwell’s letters and speeches: with elu- Staples, Carphone Warehouse, Maplin Electronics and
cidations, Volume 3, page 86 “The War with Scotland”. Carpetright.
Bernhard Tauchnitz. ISBN 1-4021-7719-4.</ref> before The Rosebird Centre is a much smaller shopping centre
the Battle of Worcester.
located on Shipston Road and contains a large Waitrose
[22]
Pets Corner[23] pet shop and Rosebird
Behind The Shrieves House is a museum called “Tudor supermarket,
World” with recreations of 16th century life in theatrical Centre Pharmacy. The pharmacy also serves as a medical centre, acting as a branch of the main Rother House
settings.
Medical Centre on Alcester Road.[24] An Avonvale VetJust off Sheep Street is Shrieves walk, a very quaint walk- erinary Centre is soon to open in Rosebird Centre.[25]
way with several small independent stores, including a
Vintage Clothing shop.
5.6 Supermarkets
5.4
Waterside & Southern Lane
This area of Stratford, which runs from the foot of Bridge
Street to Holy Trinity Church (and leads directly off
Sheep Street and Chapel Lane) runs alongside the River
Avon and offers access to the Waterside Theatre and all
areas of the RST.
The Bancroft Gardens and river area is a very popular
place for people watching, enjoying picnics and river activities. In the summer the River Avon is busy with rowing boats, motor boats and river cruises. The Birmingham to Stratford Canal is busy with colourful narrowboats passing through or mooring up in the canal basin
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. There are often jugglers,
fire-eaters and magicians entertaining the public on the
lawns. On the edge of the gardens is a water fountain,
known as the Swan Fountain. It was unveiled in 1996
by the Queen Elizabeth II to recognise that Stratford has
been a market town since 1196. It is from here the
Stratford Town Walk meet every day (even Christmas
Day), to offer a guided walking tour of the town. The
tour passes the Shakespeare houses, Royal Shakespeare
Theatres, 15th century timber-framed buildings, William
Shakespeare’s school and visits Holy Trinity Church.
The town has a number of supermarkets, including
Tesco[21] on Birmingham Road, Aldi on Canners Way[26]
(just off Birmingham Road), Morrisons on Alcester
Road,[27] Marks & Spencer on Bridge Street[28] (plus
M&S Simply Food in Maybird Shopping Park, Birmingham Road[29] ) and Waitrose at The Rosebird Centre on
Shipston Road. A small Sainsbury’s store is located on
Bridge Street.[30]
6 Transport
Stratford is 22 miles (35 km) from the UK’s second
largest city, Birmingham, and is easily accessible from
junction 15 of the M40 motorway. The 7 miles (11 km)
£12 million Stratford Northern Bypass opened in June
1987 as the A422.
Stratford-upon-Avon railway station has good rail links
from Birmingham (Snow Hill station, Moor Street station) and from London, with up to seven direct trains
a day from London Marylebone. Stratford-upon-Avon
Parkway railway station opened on 19 May 2013 to the
north of the town.
The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society aims to re-open the closed railway line from
Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne, with a later exApart from the town centre, Maybird Shopping Park, tension to Broadway, Worcestershire. The Honeybourne
usually referred to locally as “The Maybird Centre”[17][18] Line is being extended towards Honeybourne from
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Cheltenham Racecourse to connect with the Cotswold
Line. The Cotswold trains run by First Great Western go to Worcester Shrub Hill, Worcester Foregate
Street, Great Malvern and Hereford westwards and eastwards to Oxford, Reading and London Paddington. Rail
passengers currently have a very long and inconvenient journey via Birmingham Moor Street (changing
here for Birmingham New Street) or continuing on via
Birmingham Snow Hill, and onwards to reach Worcester
Shrub Hill and places westwards. Rail passengers heading
eastwards to Oxford and Reading would have to change
trains at Banbury. The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland
Junction Railway connected Stratford with the main line
of the London and North Western Railway at Blisworth
until passenger trains were withdrawn in 1952.[31]
NOTABLE PEOPLE
there are many primary schools, including St. Gregory’s
Catholic Primary School, Stratford-upon-Avon Primary
School (often known locally as “Broad Street” due to its
location), Bishopton Primary School, Willows C of E Primary School and Thomas Jolyffe Primary School both
state and independent, as well as Stratford-upon-Avon
College.
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Stratford-upon-Avon Cricket Club Ground is by the river
opposite the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The first match
recorded there was in 1880; it has hosted first-class games
since 1951 and women’s One Day Internationals since
The town has numerous cycle paths, and is the termi- 2005. Stratford Town F.C. are based at the DCS Stanus of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal where it meets the dium in Tiddington; they won the Midland Alliance in
Avon. A park and ride scheme was launched in 2006. the 2012/3 season and were promoted to Division One
The Stratford Greenway is a 5 miles (8.0 km) traffic free South & West of the Southern Football League.
cycle path, which used to be part of the rail network until
the early 1960s and is now part of the Sustrans National
Cycle Network (routes NCR 5 and NCR 41). Starting
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from town it heads along the river and racecourse towards
Welford-on-Avon and Long Marston with a cycle hire and
• Stratford-upon-Avon Holy Trinity Church
cafe available at the start of the Greenway at Seven Meadows Road.
• St Gregory’s Catholic Church
The manually powered chain ferry, Malvolio, was opened
• St Andrew’s Church Shottery
in 1937 and runs between Holy Trinity Church and the
Royal Shakespeare Theatres. It was the last of its kind to
• Stratford-upon-Avon United Reformed Church
be built in Britain.[32] Plans were announced in 2006 to
[33]
move it along the river to make space for a new bridge.
• Stratford-upon-Avon Methodist Church
The vessel was restored in 2010.[34]
Birmingham airport is 18 miles (29 km) to the northwest, with scheduled flights to many national and international destinations.
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Education
10 Notable people
With the RSC in the town many famous actors have at
some point lived or stayed in the town or surrounding villages. Some of these include,
Stratford is also home to several institutions set up for the
study of Shakespeare, including the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which holds books and documents related to
the playwright, and the Shakespeare Institute.
• William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet.
William Shakespeare is believed to have studied at King
Edward VI school. It is an all-boys school, and one
of the few remaining grammar schools in England, selecting its pupils exclusively using the Eleven plus examination. There is also an all-girls grammar school,
Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, colloquially known as 'Shottery School' after its location in
the village of Shottery, a short distance from the town
centre. Finally, there is a non-selective secondary school,
Stratford-upon-Avon High School, formerly known as the
Hugh Clopton Secondary Modern School, which was demolished to make way for the new high school. There
are no independent secondary schools in the town, but
• Simon Pegg, actor, studied at Stratford-upon-Avon
College (was born in Gloucestershire, UK)
• Sarah Douglas, actress, best known for her film and
TV career, was born and raised in the town.
• Jeffery Dench, actor, lived just outside Stratford in
Clifford Chambers until his death in 2014
• David Bradley, actor known for his role in the Harry
Potter films
• Labour MP and actor Andrew Faulds lived in Old
Town, Stratford, until his death in 2000, aged 77
• Marc Elliot actor, played Syed Masood on BBC
EastEnders
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Other notable residents include
• The historic Stratford family (who took their name
from the town)
• Adrian Newey, famous Formula 1 engineer.
• George Macaulay Trevelyan, historian
• J. B. Priestley died here.
• Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey,
served with the RAF at Stratford-upon-Avon during the 1940s. Clarke later wrote the short story
"The Curse", which takes place in a post-apocalyptic
Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Former Secretary of State for War John Profumo
was the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon 1950-1963.
• From 1901 to 1924, the romantic novelist Marie
Corelli, real name Minnie Mackay, daughter of
Charles Mackay, made her home, with her companion Miss Vyver, at Mason’s Croft, Church Street,
Stratford.
• Craig Charles, actor, presenter and DJ known for
playing Dave Lister in Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in Coronation Street has lived in Stratford.
• David Domoney, gardener, co-host of Love Your
Garden, lives in Stratford
11 Town twinning
•
Stratford, Ontario
•
Stratford, Prince Edward Island
•
Stratford, New Zealand
•
Doha, Qatar
•
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia
12 Notes
[1] “Stratford-on-Avon District Council: Living in the District”. Stratford.gov.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
• English footballer Dion Dublin, who has played for
Manchester United, Aston Villa, and Coventry City,
as well as the national team, lives with his wife and
family in Stratford.
[2] “2009 Ward Population Estimates for England and Wales,
mid-2007”. Office for National Statistics, neighbourhood
statistics. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
• Simon Gilbert and Neil Codling of the band Suede
lived and were educated in Stratford.
[3] “Stratford District Council Report - Controlling the location, scale and mix of development” (PDF). Retrieved 31
May 2013.
• Members of indie bands Klaxons and Pull Tiger Tail
all grew up and went to schools in Stratford before
they moved to New Cross, London.
• W. W. Quatremain, local landscape painter
• Gordon Ramsay, noted celebrity chef, and star of
several cooking related shows, moved to StratfordUpon-Avon with his family in 1976 when he was ten
years old.
• Brad Moran, a former Australian Rules Footballer,
grew up in Stratford before moving to Australia
when he was 15.
• Andrew Pozzi, 110m hurdler born in Stratfordupon-Avon.
• Authors Julia Suzuki and Annie Sanders both work
and live in Stratford-Upon-Avon
• John Krasinski studied at The Royal Shakespeare
Company.
[4] “1971-00 averages”. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
[5] “Climate Normals 1971–2000”. MetOffice. Retrieved 1
March 2011.
[6] “William Shakespeare”. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 May
2015.
[7] Stratford District Council still committed to tourism Media
release, 31 March 2010
[8] Stratford District Council launches new initiatives to promote tourism Media release, 8 November 2010
[9] Tourist Office Opens Media release, 12 May 2010
[10] Stratford Tourist Information Centre moving back to
Bridgefoot Media release 19 October 2011
[11] “Theatre shuts in Shakespeare town”. BBC News. 4
September 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2008.
[12] The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Introduction and architectural description in British History Online, A History
of the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred (1945), pp. 221–234. (Date accessed: 23 August
2009.)
• Quentin Willson, motoring expert, journalist and
ex-Top Gear presenter, lives in Stratford
[13] Book of Orders (Misc. Corporation Rec. unbound, xli,
• Patrick Robinson, Casualty actor and Strictly Come
Dancing contestant, lives in Stratford
no. 2)
[14] Graves R, The Spiritual Quixote bk. xii, ch. 10
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[15] Graves R, The Spiritual Quixote bk. xii, ch. 10, pages
586–7
[16] From: 'The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Introduction and architectural description', A History of the
County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred
(1945), pp. 221–234. URL: http://www.british-history.
ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57015 Date accessed: 23 August 2009. From: 'The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon:
Introduction and architectural description', A History of
the County of Warwick: Volume 3: Barlichway hundred
(1945), pp. 221–234. URL: http://www.british-history.
ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57015 Date accessed: 12
June 2009.
[17] http://www.sportsdirect.com/
stratforduponavon-store-0265
[18] http://www.boots.com/en/Store-Locator/
Boots-Stratford-Upon-Avon-The-Maybird-Centre/
[19] http://maybirdshopping.co.uk/contact/
[20] http://maybirdshopping.co.uk/the-park/
[21] http://www.tesco.com/store-locator/uk/?bID=3212
[22] http://www.waitrose.com/stratforduponavon
[23] http://www.petscorner.co.uk/stratford-upon-avon
[24] http://www.rotherhouse.org.uk/Contact
[25] http://www.avonvets.co.uk/stratford-surgery
[26] http://www.iopeningtimes.co.uk/Aldi/
Stratford-Upon-Avon/
[27] http://your.morrisons.com/store-finder/store-details/
?recordid=263
[28] http://www.opening-times.co.uk/
marks-and-spencer-stratford-upon-avon
[29] http://www.shopping-time.co.uk/CV37/Alderminster/
M-S-Stratford-Upon-Avon-Maybird-RP-Simply-Food-Maybird-Retail-Park-Birmingham-Road,
23076.html
[30] http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/storelocator/
storelocator_detail_view.jsp?bmForm=store_
details&back_page_name=showMoreStores&
storeid=4915&latitude=52.1922641163&
longitude=$-$1.7049537728&townName=
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON&isJavaScriptEnabled=
true
[31] “Warwickshire Railways”.
[32] “Shakespeare’s Stratford, Warwickshire”. The Guardian.
6 June 2009.
[33] “Bridge plan puts ferry on move”. Coventry Telegraph. 14
March 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
[34] “Stratford-upon-Avon chain ferry service resumes”. BBC.
29 March 2010.
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