Step Back in Time with Your Class in Stratford at Mary Arden's Farm
Travel & Tourism UK study tours are at their most effective when they can bring an element of studies alive for students in a way they have not previously seen. At Mary Arden’s Farm, in Stratford, your pupils can see how ordinary people lived and farmed in rural Tudor England in an experience that will capture their imaginations forever. Not Quite Mary Arden’s Farm Bizarrely, the traditional Tudor farm that students get to visit, with its authentic decoration and artefacts, isn’t actually Shakespeare’s mother’s farm - it is a building known as Palmer’s Farmhouse. Mary Arden (Shakespeare’s mother) actually lived in a house nearby, which is also owned by the Shakespeare Birth Trust. Local legend had it that Palmer’sFarmhouse had been the home of the Bard’s mother, so it was restored to its Elizabethan condition to enable visitors to see how Mary Arden would have lived. It was only in 2000 that a historian, investigating further, proved that Mary Arden’s farm was actually the nearb