Stratford-upon-Avon occurs as town around in the south Warwickshire, England. Inside 2001 the town got a people of 23,676. Stratford is known worldwide when a birthplace of William Shakespeare. These are as well a administrative centre of Stratford-on-Avon District.

Industry

Stratford occurs as popular tourist destination, as a birthplace of William Shakespeare, and receives everthing above both million visitant a year from either all over the world. Apart from either touristry, more industries in the town include aluminium ware and narrow boat building.

History and Geography
Stratford has Anglo-Saxon origins, and grew higher as a market town in medieval times. View likewise ford (river).

Travel

Stratford is some a UK's 2nd big city, Birmingham, and is easy accessible from either junction Fifteen of the M40 motorway. A septenary-mile £12m Stratford Northern Bypass opened within June 1987 when a A422. A town has expert rail links from either Birmingham (Snow Hill station, Moor Street station) and from either London, with as much as sevener direct trains the day from either London Marylebone.

the town has a newly period-path, & is on the canal network.

Tourist attractions

A town is placed on the River Avon, on the banks of which stands the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A RSC likewise diarrhea 2 little theatres, a Swan, which is modelled on an Elizabethan theatre, & The Other Place, a black box theatre.

More holidaymaker attractions in a town include Shakespeare's birthplace and two contemporary buildings, Hall's Croft (the one-time home of Shakespeare's daughter, Susannah) and New Place, which stands on the site of an earlier house originally owned by the playwright himself. As well inside a town is Holy Trinity Church, where Shakespeare was baptised & is buried.

Touching to the town come deuce more properties associated by owning Shakespeare: Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottery, the former home of Shakespeare's wife, and Mary Arden's House, the former home of his mother.

Non-Shakespearean attractions include the Teddy Bear Museum, a Butterfly Domestic, a Bancroft Gardens, & A Black Swan (locally referred to as a 'Contaminated Duck'), the pub said to be frequented by actors 'newly from either a stage'.

Eight miles away is Ragley Hall, one of England's finest stately homes and page to the Jerwood Sculpture Park.

A town experienced a publicly-funded gallery, The Gallery, however this was closed inside 2004.

A inflow of tourer into Stratford has driven tension sustaining residents for decades, & there are perennial complains just about many tour buses clogging certain roads in the town.

There are plans to refurbish a Royal Shakespeare Theatre, & to build agents & flats on the defunct cows market next to the train depot.

Educational establishments

Stratford is likewise at home to many institutions install for a learn of Shakespeare, including the Shakespeare Centre, which holds books & documents related to a dramatist, and the Shakespeare Institute, an academic institution.

There are the total of primary & lyceum, including ii grammar schools: King Edward VI School, as well referred to as "KES" and Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls.

Trivia

Screaming Lord Sutch started his political campaign in Stratford John Profumo was MP for Stratford Another famed dramatist, J.B. Priestley, died in Stratford. The towns of Stratford, Australia and Stratford, Ontario both lie on lakes known as Avon.