In November 2010 Stratford-on-Avon District Council launched a re-branded official tourism website for the Stratford area called Discover Stratford after opening a new tourist information centre on Henley Street in May 2010, which has since moved back to the original location on Bridgefoot.

Henley Street, one of the town's oldest streets, underwent substantial architectural change between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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By 1552 he was residing in a house on Henley Street, which is traditionally referred to as the birthplace of William ( now called Shakespeare's Birthplace ), and on 2 October 1556, he purchased the house to the east and joined the two together.

In the 18th century a tract signed by John Shakespeare, in which he pledged to remain a Catholic in his heart, was found in the rafters of the house on Henley Street.

On the first Monday and Tuesday of October, Alcester plays host to an annual Mop Fair where amusement rides, side stalls and food booths line the High Street, Church Street and Henley Street.

This subdivision was bounded by what is now Henley Street ( which at the time was the city's western boundary ), Main Street, the riverfront, and Second Creek.

According to Henley, the first abduction he participated in occurred at 925 Schuler Street, an address Corll had moved to in February 1972.

One month later, on March 24, 1972, Henley, Brooks and Corll encountered an 18-year-old acquaintance of Henley's named Frank Aguirre leaving a restaurant on Yale Street, where the youth worked.

On June 4, Henley and Corll abducted a 15-year-old friend of Henley's named William Ray Lawrence ; the youth was last seen alive by his father on Thirty-first Street.

A friend of both Henley and Brooks who was killed at Corll's Schuler Street address.

There are train services to Birmingham Moor Street station, Birmingham Snow Hill station and on to Stourbridge Junction in one direction and to Henley in Arden and Stratford Upon Avon in the other direction from Shirley railway station which is located in Haslucks Green Road.

Buildings constructed during Dempster's tenures as city manager and mayor include the Henley Street Bridge, the Church Avenue and Fifth Avenue viaducts, four public library branches, and Bill Meyer Stadium.

Brakspear bought a brewery on Bell Street, Henley.

The one mile long ( 1. 6 km ) High Street of Henley is a conservation area.

Henley-in-Arden is approximately 9 miles west of the county town of Warwick, 15 miles southeast of Birmingham, 9 miles east of Redditch and 9 miles north of Stratford upon Avon ( where the road between Stratford and Henley was named Henley Street ).

William Ernest Henley is known to most people by virtue of this single poem.

* 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.

The Henley Royal Regatta is also raced upon a non-standard distance at 1 mile, 550 yards ( 2, 112 meters ).

Time trials are sometimes used to determine who competes in an event where there is a limited number of entries, for example the qualifying races for Henley Royal Regatta, and rowing on and getting on for the Oxford and Cambridge Bumps races respectively.

* March 26 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.

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A church is first mentioned at Henley in 1204.

In 1278 Henley is described as a hamlet of Benson with a Chapel.

It is said that members for Henley sat in parliaments of Edward I and Edward III, but no writs have been found to substantiate this.

Henley Bridge is a five arched bridge across the river which was built in 1786.

The Old Bell is a traditional pub situated right in the centre of Henley.

* Greenlands which took its present form when owned by W. H. Smith and is now home to Henley Business School

The University of Reading's Henley Business School is near Henley.

Henley is a world renowned centre for rowing.

Each summer Henley Royal Regatta is held on " Henley Reach ", a stretch of the river that is naturally straight, although it was later extended artificially.

* Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł ( 1917 – 1976 ) is buried at St Anne's church, Fawley Court just outside Henley, where he founded the Divine Mercy College.

Henley's Local newspaper is the Henley Standard.

Regatta Radio ( 87. 7 ) is broadcast during Henley Royal Regatta.

Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson ( born December 25, 1958 ) is an American former baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four stints with his original team, the Oakland Athletics.

Henley Royal Regatta first included a women's singles event over the full course in 1993, followed in 2000 by eights ( now Remenham Challenge Cup ) and 2001 by quadruple sculls ( now Princess Grace Challenge Cup ).

They are now on show at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley.

The center of the original village was near what is now Broughton and Henley Streets, according to a marker there.

In a letter to Henley after the publication of Treasure Island Stevenson wrote: " I will now make a confession.

In a letter to Henley after the publication of Treasure Island Stevenson wrote " I will now make a confession.

For example First and Third, like all other Oxbridge college crews, now have difficulty achieving a standard of rowing to even qualify for events at the Henley Royal Regatta, let alone to win these events.

Lord Henley is now one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999.

In his call, Henley blurted to the operator: " Y'all better come here right now!

In the 19th century it was a serious regatta to rival Henley or Marlow, but now it is a local regatta for amateur teams of inhabitants of the two villages.

* Jon Henley, The Guardian, May 29, 2003, Sierra Leone 2000: How do you ask a man of 29 with three kids and both hands missing if his life is better now?

* Ted Henley ( now at CKAL-TV )

Henley is now chiefly remembered as the author of the poem " Invictus ".

Other former Brakspear brewing staff are involved in a number of craft breweries, Justin Grant became head brewer of the Breconshire Brewery ; Chris Hearn & Steve Brown are now at Loddon Brewery near Henley, Mike McGuigan is brewing at Brimstage Brewery, Wirral ; Adrian Redgrove is head brewer at Castle Rock Brewery-Nottingham they won CAMRA's 2010 Champion Beer of Britain Award for their Harvest Pale ; Stuart Howe is head brewer at Sharp's Brewery, Cornwall ; and Jeff Drew is head brewer at Ringwood Brewery, Hants

The first and best-known administrative staff college was established in Britain at Greenlands near Henley, Oxfordshire and is now renamed Henley Management College.