Three miles ( 5 km ) from Hatton Top Lock the canal passes through Shrewley Tunnel, with its separate horse tunnel, and then passes Rowington village to Kingswood Junction where a short spur connects with the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.

The Bancroft Gardens run from Waterside to the River Avon and include a canal basin at the southern end of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.

The town has numerous cycle paths, and is the terminus of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal where it meets the Avon.

* Stratford-upon-Avon Canal

The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal links to the Avon through a lock in the park in front of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

From Tewkesbury it follows the course of the River Severn, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal to arrive back at the Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon.

The other waterway to Stratford, the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, had been restored by the National Trust and was opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother exactly a month later, and her involvement caught the public's imagination.

The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a canal in the south Midlands of England.

The Stratford-upon-Avon canal connects the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton to the River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.

An Act was passed on 28 March 1793 for the construction of a canal from a junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal in Kings Norton to Stratford-upon-Avon.

The River Avon is a navigable waterway linking the River Severn at Tewkesbury to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal at Stratford-upon-Avon.

It flows roughly north east, skirting to the west of Shirley, and passing under an aqueduct for the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal at Major's Green.

Other canals such as the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, the Warwick and Birmingham Canal ( now the Grand Union ) and the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal linked Birmingham to the rest of the country.

* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

Oxford had borrowed the name from a third Shakespeare, the man of that name from Stratford-upon-Avon, who was a law student at the time, but who was never an actor or a writer.

His first was in 1963, when he contested the by-election in Stratford-upon-Avon caused by the resignation of John Profumo.

On the River Avon between Stratford-upon-Avon and Tewkesbury, a towpath was never provided, and bow-hauling continued until the 1860s, when steam tugs were introduced.

The company fell out of use until it was acquired by Simon Kirby, a historian and collector of antique bathroom fittings, who relaunched the company in Stratford-upon-Avon, producing authentic reproductions of Crapper's original Victorian bathroom fittings.

Finally, there is a non-selective secondary school, Stratford-upon-Avon High School, formerly known as the Hugh Clopton Secondary Modern School, which was demolished to make way for the new high school.

* Simon Pegg, actor, studied at Stratford-upon-Avon College ( was born in Gloucestershire, UK )

* Former Secretary of State for War John Profumo was the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1950s.

* Brad Moran, grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon then moved to Australia when he was 15, he is now an Australian Rules Footballer with the Adelaide Crows.

* A statue by John Henry Foley was shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition and later donated to the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon where it now stands.

This was later adapted for the stage in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1999, the year after Hughes's death ..

Originally granted in 1762 with the name Woodbury, the town was regranted as Stratford in 1773, in honor of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Originally called " Evesham " ( named for an English village outside Stratford-upon-Avon ), the town was incorporated as one of the original 13 townships in Burlington County in 1688.

Elsa's brother Waldo Lanchester was a puppeteer, with his own marionette company based in Malvern and later Stratford-upon-Avon, England and a friend of George Bernard Shaw

In 1952 he appeared at the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre ( forerunner of the Royal Shakespeare Company ) but had mixed reviews: his Prospero in The Tempest was judged too prosaic, and his Macbeth, directed by Gielgud, was thought unconvincingly villainous (" Richardson's playing of Macbeth suggests a fatal disparity between his temperament and the part ").

There have been theatrical performances in Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare ’ s day, though the first recorded performance of a play by Shakespeare himself was in 1748 when Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford grammar school, organised a charitable production to fund the restoration of Shakespeare's funerary monument.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1963 to play Trinculo in The Tempest and Cinna the Poet in Julius Caesar, and in July was cast as Henry VI in the John Barton adaptation of Henry VI, Parts I, II and III, which comprised the first two plays from The Wars of the Roses trilogy.

He was baptised on 3 March, his godfather sometimes being said to have been William Shakespeare, who had stayed frequently at the Crown during his travels between London and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Filming was done following the 1964 run of the plays at Stratford-upon-Avon, and took place over an eight-week period.

The company ’ s home is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it has recently redeveloped its Royal Shakespeare and Swan theatres as part of a £ 112. 8-million " Transformation " project.

It was extended to Manchester on 1 April 1935, replacing part of the A42 ( Oxford to Birmingham through Shipston-on-Stour, Stratford-upon-Avon and Henley-in-Arden ), A455 ( Birmingham to Stafford ), part of the A449 ( Stafford to Newcastle under Lyme ) and A526 ( Newcastle to Manchester ).

In addition, a branch line provided by the Alcester Railway company ( later part of the Great Western Railway ), ran from Alcester to Bearley, thus giving access to Stratford-upon-Avon.

The line ran from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham and was part of a main line from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales.

Bishop's Cleeve was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, opened on 1 June 1906 by the Great Western Railway and running from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham, part of a main line from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales.

It is part of the University of Birmingham, and is located in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The line was originally part of the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham – Stratford-upon-Avon – Birmingham line, known as the Honeybourne Line, built in 1900 – 1906, and runs through the Cotswold towns of Winchcombe and Bishop's Cleeve.

As part of its educational programme the trust's operational arm Vintage Trains runs the Shakespeare Express between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Broadway was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, opened in the early 1900s by the Great Western Railway and running from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham, part of a main line from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales.

In July 1873 the East and West Junction Railway ( later part of the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway ) was opened through the parish.

Byfield once had a station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway ( later part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway ), but this closed in April 1952.

A railway station was located between the two villages, on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway ( later part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway ), but the station closed in April 1952.

Stoke Bruerne had its own railway station, part of the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway ( SMJR ) and misnamed Stoke Bruern.