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Stratford-on-Avon

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Strat·ford-on-Av·on  (strtfrd-n-vn, -ôn-) also Strat·ford-up·on-Av·on (--pn-, --pôn-)
A municipal borough of central England south-southeast of Birmingham. William Shakespeare was born and died in the borough, which has long been a popular tourist center. An annual festival includes performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Population: 22,100.
Stratford-on-Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon [ˈstrætfəd]
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(Placename) 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.: 22 231 (1991)
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Noun1.Stratford-on-AvonStratford-on-Avon - a town in central England on the River Avon; birthplace (and burial place) of William Shakespeare
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ONE April morning nearly three hundred and fifty years ago there was a stir and bustle in a goodly house in the little country town of Stratford-on-Avon.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
He was born in 1564 in the good-sized village of Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, near the middle of England, where the level but beautiful country furnished full external stimulus for a poet's eye and heart.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Hilbery had evolved a theory that Anne Hathaway had a way, among other things, of writing Shakespeare's sonnets; the idea, struck out to enliven a party of professors, who forwarded a number of privately printed manuals within the next few days for her instruction, had submerged her in a flood of Elizabethan literature; she had come half to believe in her joke, which was, she said, at least as good as other people's facts, and all her fancy for the time being centered upon Stratford-on-Avon.
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