Anne Hathaways Cottage and gardens 15g2006

Shottery, formerly a small village a mile west of

Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...

town centre, is now part of the town, though retaining the feeling of a distinct village.

History and amenities

Shottery has a

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Shottery Memorial Hall
one

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, and one small

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, Shottery St Andrew's CofE Primary School that has been open since the mid-19th century. The school has been threatened with closure numerous times due to local spending cuts, however locals have always managed to raise the funds required to keep the school open. There is one pub (The Bell Inn), and the Santa Lucia Italian cuisine restaurant, opposite the pub, which has now closed. The latter building has long served as an eatery, and in Victorian times was a

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soup kitchen. There was a Shottery Village Stores and

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, but it closed in the 1990s and is now a private home. The local park, Shottery Fields, contains two football pitches and a children's play area. The Fields retain distinctive "ditch and furrow" undulations, marking medieval field systems, and these can be seen when the sun is low across the Fields. The Fields also contain a footpath to the town centre. Shottery has a Rugby Club, Shottery RFC, which is now based at Stratford Rugby Club's ground, Pearcecroft, on the Loxley Road, south Stratford. The club was founded by the Reverend David Capron, Vicar of St Andrew's church in the year 1984. Shottery was the childhood home of

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's wife, and is the location of the building known as

Anne Hathaway's Cottage Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about west of Stratford-upon-Avon. Spacious, and with several bedr ...

which is a very popular tourist destination. The authenticity of the building as the home of Anne Hathaway is, however, not credited by Shakespearean scholars.

Governance

Shottery is presently part of the

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, the "Hathaway"

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Stratford-on-Avon District Council Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...

and the "Stratford West" division of

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. The local MP (since the 2010 general election) is

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of the

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External links

History of Shottery
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