Literary Warwickshire William Shakespeare
The house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born. http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
The old part of Stratford Grammar School, where it is assumed Shakespeare studied.
Shakespeare’s grave inside Holy Trinity Church.
Holy Trinity Church, where Shakespeare was both baptised and buried. The monument shown left is near his grave. See:
THE two most certain facts about Shakespeare’s life are that he was baptised and buried, more or less exactly 52 years apart, in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire.
From a house in Henley Street, now part of the birthplace museum, his father John ran a glovemaking business. William was the eldest surviving child of John and Mary (two preceding children had died) and records show that he was baptised in Holy Trinity Church on April 26, 1564.
It is generally thought that Shakespeare studied at the grammar school in Church Street, as the son of a prosperous businessman and some time town mayor who would have wanted an education for his son..
The schoolroom Shakespeare would have known is still part of the present-day boys’ grammar, King Edward VI School (locally known as KES). Not long - maybe only a couple of years - after leaving school, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in 1582 (he was 18). He was next heard of in London 10 years later working as an actor while Anne and their three children were still in Stratford. While he became wealthy and famous, he continued to be based in the capital, but invested in property in Stratford and regularly went home. He ‘retired’ to a magnificent house in the town in 1611 (New Place, now demolished) and died five years later.