Shakespeare’s Birthplace is now open daily from 10am-4pm. Mary Arden’s Farm and Hall’s Croft remain closed to the public until further notice. See Latest Updates for further information. Booking online is recommended, particularly during busy periods such as weekends.
Q. Is Mary Ardens house open?
Mary Arden’s Farm is currently closed to the public. Built by Mary’s father, Robert Arden around 1514, Mary Arden’s House has been significantly altered over time.
Table of Contents
- Q. Is Mary Ardens house open?
- Q. What did Mary Arden do for a living?
- Q. When was Mary Arden born?
- Q. Who Shakespeare married?
- Q. Where was the wrong house in Mary Arden’s House?
- Q. When did Robert Arden build Mary Arden’s Farm?
- Q. What to see and do at Mary Ardens farm?
- Q. Why was Mary Arden’s House called Palmer’s farm?
Q. What did Mary Arden do for a living?
She was from a well-to-do farming family from the village of Wilmcote, and the youngest of at least eight daughters. Mary seems to have been the favourite. Her father left her a valuable inheritance of land and named her an executor of his estate upon his death in 1556.
Q. When was Mary Arden born?
Mary Arden was the mother of William Shakespeare. Mary’s date of birth is unknown; she was likely to have been born between the years 1536-8. She was the youngest of eight daughters and lived in a farmhouse that was built in 1514.
Q. Who Shakespeare married?
Anne Hathawaym. 1582–1616
William Shakespeare/Spouse
On November 28, 1582, William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon. Six months later, Anne gives birth to their daughter, Susanna, and two years later, to twins.
Q. Where was the wrong house in Mary Arden’s House?
For many years visitors to Mary’s Arden’s House had actually been led up the garden path of the wrong house! The large farmhouse in Wilmcote, a few miles north of Stratford upon Avon, that it had always been assumed was the childhood home of Shakespeare’s mother, was in fact the wrong one.
Q. When did Robert Arden build Mary Arden’s Farm?
Built by Mary’s father, Robert Arden around 1514, Mary Arden’s House has been significantly altered over time. Today, visitors to Mary Arden’s Farm can peek inside the chimney and the walls, discover how the house was built and imagine what life must have been like for Mary when she lived here with her seven sisters.
Q. What to see and do at Mary Ardens farm?
Experience the sights, sounds and smells of a working Tudor farm on a fantastic family day out at Mary Arden’s Farm. Meet the Tudors who run the farm just as Shakespeare’s mother would have done, watch craft and falconry demonstrations and explore the farmyard, playground and historic buildings.
Q. Why was Mary Arden’s House called Palmer’s farm?
The larger farmhouse was renamed Palmer’s Farm after the family who had lived in it for many years and the smaller house (which was by now also owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and which had been used by them as a Victorian exhibit- as it still is) was anointed as Mary Arden’s true domicile.
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