The Welcombe Hills and Clopton Park offer delightful walks through grassland and woodland. Woolly thistle, quaking-grass and the diminutive adder’s-tongue grow in the grasslands where ant hills created by yellow meadow ants are a distinctive feature. The woodland contains oak, horse-chestnut and beech with English elm. Birds are plentiful, with great spotted woodpecker, sparrowhawk, little owl, treecreeper and finches enjoying the woodland where ravens breed in spring. Brimstone butterflies are numerous in the spring sunshine.

History of the Welcombe Hills: a Shakespearean tale

The reserve may have got its name from a historic well found here with its inscription 'SJC 1686'. Margaret, daughter of William Clopton who died in 1592 supposedly drowned here. It was around this time that Shakespeare was writing his famous play, Hamlet, and its believed that this tragic event provided the inspiration for his 'Ophelia' and her lonely death.

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Localização:Stratford Upon Avon, Stratford-On-Avon, Warwickshire, Região das Midlands Oeste, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

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Stannals Bridge, Stratford Greenway

Gordon Gray Lock and Weir Brake Lock on the River Avon

Shakespeare Memorial Fountain and Clock Tower

Colin P Witter Lock (River Avon)

Waterfall and Lake at Charlecote Park

Milcote Carriage Café

Colletts Wood and Pond

Millennium Way Path – Walk 18 Section

Stratford-upon-Avon Lock No. 56

View of Stratford-upon-Avon from the Welcombe Obelisk

Wilmcote Wharf, Stratford-upon-Avon Canal

View of Wellesbourne and South Leamington from Hatton Bank

Welcombe Hills & Clopton Park

1. Circuito Welcombe Hills & Clopton Park e The Farm, Snitterfield (ponto de partida: Stratford-upon-Avon)

2. Circuito Welcombe Hills & Clopton Park (ponto de partida: Tiddington)

3. Circuito The Farm, Snitterfield e Shakespeare's Birthplace (ponto de partida: Stratford-upon-Avon)

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