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- The Arden family is an English gentry family that can be traced back in the male line to Anglo-Saxon landholders who managed to maintain status after the 1066 invasion of England by the Normans of France. The family held lands in Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worcester, Cheshire and Shropshire.
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Shakespeare’s maternal grandfather Robert Arden was a wealthy husbandman (tenant farmer). He held about seventy acres of land in Wilmcote in addition to more land in Snitterfield, which he rented to Richard Shakespeare, William’s paternal grandfather.
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The site – now owned and managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust – is run as a working Tudor farm, and includes two neighbouring farm houses. There has been some confusion over the years as to which of the two buildings was actually Mary Arden’s farm.
Mary Arden's House in Wilmcote was maintained in good condition as a working farmhouse, until it was bought by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1930 and refurnished in the Tudor period style.
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The farm is located about an 8 minute drive outside of Stratford-upon-Avon in the village of Wilmcote. If you don’t have a vehicle, you can also reach the farm by purchasing a ticket for theCity Sightseeing hop on hop off bus tour.
I would suggest leaving yourself between 1-2 hours to explore the farm. As mentioned, there are a variety of interactive activities and displays and you’ll want to make sure you leave time to see them!
There are a number of Shakespeare attractions to visit in and around the area of Stratford-upon-Avon. Within the town you can visit Shakespeare’s Birthplace on Henley Street, or his grave atHoly Trinity Church. Also slightly outside the town, in the village of Shottery, is Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, the picturesque family home of Shakespeare’s wife. ...
Jun 23, 2004 · Situated a few miles from the town of Stratford in the small village of Wilmcote stands Mary Arden’s House, the childhood home of William Shakespeare’s mother. The house is now part of the...
The Ardennes proper stretches well into Germany and France (lending its name to the Ardennes department and the former Champagne-Ardenne region) and geologically into the Eifel (the eastern extension of the Ardennes Forest into Bitburg-Prüm, Germany); most of it is in the southeast of Wallonia, the southern and more rural part of Belgium (away f...
Sep 12, 2019 · The Ardennes. More than 4,000 square miles of hills and ridges, thickly forested, dissected by streams and rivers, its few roads punctuated by chokepoints. One of Western Europe’s ancient wildernesses. Nothing was expected here. Troy Middleton’s US VIII Corps was spread thin along 80 miles of front.
