Best Hotels Near Shakespeare's Birthplace Stratford
The half-timbered house on Henley Street where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood is the most visited literary birthplace in the world, a beautifully restored Tudor townhouse whose rooms are furnished as they would have appeared in the Elizabethan period and whose visitor centre tells the story of the world's greatest playwright. Hotels near Shakespeare's Birthplace in central Stratford are within the same medieval and Tudor streetscape that Shakespeare himself walked daily.