Stratford-upon-Avon

Everybody knows Shakespeare. The plays. The Globe. The quotes that feel less like quotations and more like the English language thinking aloud. But Stratford-upon-Avon is a trickier proposition, a small market town that happens to be the most literary place on earth.

The trick is knowing where to look. The Bard is everywhere here, in the half-timbered streets where his father sold gloves, in the school where he first encountered classical plays, in the church where he was baptised and is buried today.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tour connects those dots, walking you the full length of the River Avon, past the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, all the way to the church where Shakespeare left a curse on his own tomb. The stories in your ears are as alive as the plays they illuminate.