Historic sites

Charlecote Park

United Kingdom Warwickshire Wellesbourne Mountford

Charlecote Park
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A Tudor house of red brick beside the River Avon, home to the Lucy family for over 900 years. Legend says the young William Shakespeare was caught poaching deer in the park; fallow deer still graze there today.


It's just a few miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. See the Victorian kitchen and brewhouse and walk in the parkland laid out by Capability Brown.

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