It is the largest and most populous town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon, which uses the term " on " to indicate that it covers a much larger area than the town itself.

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.

* Stratford-on-Avon District Council

Between 1894 and 1974 Southam was the administrative centre of the Southam Rural District ; since then it has been in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire.

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Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the District of Stratford-on-Avon.

It falls within the areas of Stratford-on-Avon District Council and Warwickshire County Council.

Until 1931, Welford-on-Avon was in Gloucestershire ( as part of the Rural District of Marston Sicca ), when it was transferred to Stratford-on-Avon Rural District.

Since 1974 it has been part of the District of Stratford-on-Avon.

Evesham is situated on a horse shoe shaped peninsula almost completely surrounded by water in a meander of the River Avon between Stratford-on-Avon and Tewkesbury.

There is a tradition that he was a friend of Shakespeare, supported by a statement of John Ward, once vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, that " Shakespear, Drayton and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems, drank too hard, for Shakespear died of a feavour there contracted.

Southam is a small market town in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England.

The lowest rate in the region is the district of Stratford-on-Avon, with 1. 6 %-one of the lowest unemployment rates in England.

The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2, 278.

One of Hart's articles disputed the authorship of the literary works of Shakespeare, asserting that the famous plays and poems were in fact written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford rather than the man from Stratford-on-Avon who is credited with them.

Studley is a large village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England.

Nationally it is part of Stratford-on-Avon ( UK Parliament constituency ), whose current Member of Parliament is Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservative Party.

In Stratford-on-Avon, they performed at the Holy Trinity Church where William Shakespeare is buried.

It is part of the district of Stratford-on-Avon and in the 2001 census had a population of 705.

One of the horse-drawn wagons, which belonged to Thomas Hutchings of Newbold Lime Works, is preserved near the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon.

For those intending to go to Gas Street and Birmingham city centre, the narrowbeam Stratford-on-Avon Canal offers more locks and a longer passage, but for boaters going straight round the ring, the main line route is shorter and quicker.

Wootton Wawen () is a small village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England.

Nationally it is part of Stratford-on-Avon constituency, whose current Member of Parliament following the 2010 election is Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservative Party.

Stratford-on-Avon is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Nationally it is part of Stratford-on-Avon ( UK Parliament constituency ), whose current Member of Parliament is Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservative Party.

Punting is a popular leisure activity on the rivers of several well-known tourist destinations: there are commercial organizations that offer punts for hire on the Avon in Bath, the Cam in Cambridge, the Cherwell & Isis in Oxford, at Stratford-on-Avon, and on the lower Thames near Sunbury.

Admington is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of the English county of Warwickshire.

Where the towpath reached a lock, which was spanned by a footbridge at its tail, the southerm section of the Stratford-on-Avon Canal used split bridges so that the horse line did not have to be detached.

In 1919, he arranged incidental music from Elizabethan sources for As You Like It at Stratford-on-Avon, and conducted a series of Sunday concerts at Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, where he also conducted Pergolesi's opera La serva padrona.

De Stratford was born at Stratford-on-Avon and educated at Merton College, Oxford, afterwards entering the service of Edward II.

In 1950 he left the army and at the general election in February 1950 he was elected for Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, a safe Conservative seat.

While still at Balliol he had written two articles on Shakespearean questions, which were printed in The Gentleman's Magazine, and in 1884 he published a book about Stratford-on-Avon.

His books relating to Shakespeare were bequeathed to the library at Stratford-on-Avon ; those on civic pageantry ( between 200 and 300 volumes ) to the Society of Antiquaries ; his old prints and works on costume to the British Museum ; his general library he desired to be sold and the proceeds devoted to the Literary Fund.

He also liberally funded the notable early excavations at Luxor in Egypt, and the American School of Classical Studies for excavation of the Agora and the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attolos, both in Athens ; the American Academy in Rome ; Lingnan University in China ; St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo ; the library of the Imperial University in Tokyo ; and to the Shakespeare Memorial Endowment at Stratford-on-Avon.

The following year, he exceeded himself, winning at Stratford-on-Avon with his best-ever score of 9. 5 / 11 ( 8 wins, 3 draws ).

The Stratford and Moreton Tramway was built between 1821 and 1826, linking Moreton with the Stratford-on-Avon Canal at Stratford.

He was at Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon for the 1957 to 1959 seasons.

They performed the final contracted show on 15 July 1994 at a headlining performance at the Phoenix Festival near Stratford-on-Avon in front of an audience of 30, 000.

Her last poetical work was performed at Stratford-on-Avon, where the quiet loveliness of the Warwickshire scenery and the associations with Shakespeare inspired her with some very beautiful sonnets.

After practising at Lewes, Chichester and Stratford-on-Avon successively, he was appointed professor of the practice of medicine at University College, London, in 1828.

* Dirty Duck: The Black Swan, as in Stratford-on-Avon ; also The Mucky Duck in Portsmouth and the Students Union pub at the University of Warwick

One of her last appearances was as Beatrice, on the opening of the Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon on 23 April 1879.

In addition to numerous private benefactions in educational and charitable fields, he erected memorial windows to William Cowper and George Herbert in Westminster Abbey ( 1877 ), and to John Milton in St. Margaret's, Westminster ( 1888 ), a monument to Leigh Hunt at Kensal Green, a William Shakespeare memorial fountain at Stratford-on-Avon ( 1887 ), and a monument to Richard A. Proctor.

Merrison was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1970's and the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon.