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{{Short description|Long-distance footpath in southern England}}
{{For|the song by One True Voice|Shakespeare's (Way With) Words}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}
[[File:Shakespeare's Way waymarker, Yarnton.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Shakespeare's Way waymarker in Oxfordshire]]
'''Shakespeare's Way''' is a waymarked [[long-distance footpath]] in southern England, United Kingdom.

==The route==

The 235&nbsp;km (146&nbsp;mi) [[waymarked]] route (which opened in 2006) runs from [[William Shakespeare]]'s birthplace in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] in [[Warwickshire]] to the modern [[Shakespeare's Globe]] (near the site of the original [[Globe Theatre]]), on the south bank of the [[River Thames]] in London. The Globe replicates a late [[Elizabethan period|Elizabethan]] or early [[Jacobean era|Jacobean]] [[theatre]] of the period.

The route is intended to shadow a possible route taken by Shakespeare himself when journeying between London, where he acted and wrote his plays, and his home in Stratford.

The route passes through part of the [[Cotswolds]], the [[Chiltern Hills]], the valley of the [[River Stour, Warwickshire]], [[Oxford]] and enters the [[Thames Valley]] at [[Marlow, Buckinghamshire]] before following the [[Grand Union Canal]] and then the [[Thames Path]] into London.

==External links==
<!--* [http://www.shakespearesway.org/ The Shakespeare's Way website] this domain has been hijacked-->
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20241207173024/http://www.shakespearesway.org/ The Shakespeare's Way website] (Archived)
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/articles/2006/09/28/shakespeare_way_feature.shtml BBC Coventry & Warwickshire article on the walk]

{{Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom}}
{{Named footpaths in London}}
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[[Category:Long-distance footpaths in England]]
[[Category:Footpaths in Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Footpaths in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Footpaths in London]]
[[Category:Footpaths in Buckinghamshire]]