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Hamnet strips away the legend and finds the man — and the woman beside him. Stratford-upon-Avon has never felt more worth discovering slowly. Anne Hathaway's Cottage in Shottery, near Stratford-upon-Avon — known in Agnes's time as Hewlands Farm, and the home where Shakespeare came to court her | Photo: Christopher Eden, Unsplash The story most visitors bring to Stratford-upon-Avon is about a man who became a legend. Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell's Booker Prize-winning novel, now

The UK and Ireland shelter UNESCO World Heritage Sites that span five thousand years of human story—from Neolithic passage tombs aligned to winter solstice to Romantic poets' lakes, from Roman baths still steaming after two millennia to island monasteries where monks copied manuscripts while Vikings ruled the seas.