This private day trip visits the birthplace and hometown of William Shakespeare, one of England's most popular and best preserved historic towns.
After meeting your guide, you travel to Stratford Upon Avon to explore Shakespeare's life and hometown. You visit the house where William Shakespeare was born in 1564, restored to reflect Tudor-era domestic life and offering insight into what Shakespeare's childhood home would have looked and felt like.
After a break for lunch (meal not included), you visit Holy Trinity Church, which dates from the early 13th century and stands on the banks of the River Avon. Shakespeare was both baptized and, in 1616, buried inside the church. His burial within the church itself, rather than in the churchyard, came not from his fame as a playwright but from the fact that he held a share of the church's tithe income, a right that came with the corresponding duty of maintaining the chancel, and with it the privilege of burial there. His wife Anne Hathaway, daughter Susanna, son-in-law Dr. John Hall, and Thomas Nash, the first husband of his granddaughter Elizabeth, are all buried beside him.
If time allows, you have some free time to explore the town or shop before the return drive to your hotel in London.