Mary Arden’s House Wilmcote Warwickshire

Three and half miles from Stratford upon Avon you’ll find this timbered Tudor house that Shakespeare’s mother, Mary Arden, grew up. She was born about 1540 and lived there until her marriage to John Shakespeare and moving to Henley Street.

This 18^th century farmstead in Wilmcote village lies by the Avon on its right bank. It is now owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and is home to Shakespeare countryside museum, two historic farms, displays of farm implements, daily demonstrations by the Heart of England falconry, a blacksmith’s forge and a duck pond.