Mary Arden’ House
The magnificent, thatched and timber-framed, Tudor farmstead is childhood home of Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare. The building is constructed using Oak from the nearby Arden Forest and stone from Wilmcote itself. The interior is of Tudor farming family.
The house has been continually inhabited by farmers, insuring that the fascinating outbuildings remain largely intact, and provide a home for an extensive museum illustrating rural life over the last 400 years.
Mary Arden’s House is approximately three and half miles outside Stratford and still retaining its country setting in Wilmcote.Mary Arden, grew up here before marrying John Shakespeare & moving Henley Street. It is also home to the Shakespeare countryside museum, two historic farms, displays of farm implements, daily demonstrations by the Heart of England falconry, a blacksmith’s forge and a duck pond.
The feeling I had there was something very different.Can we ever think of making Shantineketan ( Tagore’s Abode), Lamhi( Munshi Premchand) or Lucknow for Jayshankar or Nirala even a little bit familiar to today’s generation?