New Place and Gardens
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Explore the plot of Shakespeare's house - the largest in Stratford in the early 17th Century!
Prepare to be awestruck by the elysian gardens of New Place!
Visit other areas of interests while you're there (Nash's House etc.)
Fun Facts
Prepare to be awestruck by the elysian gardens of New Place!
Visit other areas of interests while you're there (Nash's House etc.)
Fun Facts
- Shakespeare bought New Place and Gardens for £120 then, now about £200,000.
- The Art Garden had stables, grain storage and ale brewing capacities.
- Shakespeare had a mulberry bush given to him by James I however this was chopped down by the house's owner Reverend Gaskell in the mid 18th century.
- The Mulberry fruit is the food of silkworms.
- Rev. Gaskell also destroyed the house after he felt it was attracting unwanted attention in 1759.
- In the back gardens there are several statues of Shakespeare's most well-known characters such as:
- Hamlet
- MacBeth
- King Lear
- Julius Caesar
- Henry IV