Stratford-on-Avon

[ strat-ferd-on-ey-vuhn, -awn-; -ey-von ]

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noun

a town in SW Warwickshire, in central England, on the Avon River: birthplace and burial place of Shakespeare.

Stratford-on-Avon

/ ˈstrætfəd /

a market town in central England, in SW Warwickshire on the River Avon: the birthplace and burial place of William Shakespeare and home of the Royal Shakespeare Company; tourist centre. Pop: 22 187 (2001)

So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in his life.

Winchcombe, it may be thought, is a far cry from Stratford-on-Avon.

His brother Robert early became rector of Stratford-on-Avon, in 1319.

My first visit to Stratford-on-Avon was in the regulation fashion.

Stratford-on-Avon is a household word wherever the English tongue is spoken.

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