The Sinister Side of Shakespeare's Stratford

On the Sinister Stratford Guided Walk you’ll take a trip into the past for around an hour and a half to find out about the dark and disgusting history of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Over the course of 90 minutes you will hear tales of plague, murder, ghosts, torture, kidnap, grizzly deaths and witches. If that’s not enough there’s some crackpot medicine, raw sewage, grave robbing, a serial killer and more thrown in too.

And of course, with this being Stratford-upon-Avon, some of these stories are linked back to Shakespeare’s life and death, others are said to have influenced him, and you will of course see several of the sites which he was associated with as we take in most of the historical spine of Stratford.

• 90-minute guided tour around Stratford-upon-Avon