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Stratford-Upon-Avon is located in the heart of England. The town of Stratford lies on the Avon river, about 8 miles downstream from the county town of Warwick. The town was originally a market town, and this picture shows the market place at the town centre. The name Stratford means street-ford. It was a crossing point, a ford, over the Avon. In medieval times a wooden bridge was built, alongside the ford, and at the end of the fifteenth century this stone bridge was constructed. The bridge is called the Clopton Bridge, and was financed by Hugh Clopton, a rich merchant from Stratford, who became Lord Mayor of London. Over the bridge is the road to London. Near the Stratford side of the Clopton Bridge is the Gower Memorial, to Stratford's most famous and celebrated son, William Shakespeare. A memorial for William Shakespeare was cast in bronze and erected in 1888.
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