Coordinates:
Stratford-upon-Avon is a small market town in south Warwickshire in England in the United Kingdom. It lies on the River Avon some 61 km (38 miles), south of Birmingham and 14 km (9 miles) south-west of the county town, Warwick. In 2001, the town's population was 23,676.
The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace and deathbed of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world.
The local district council sits in the town, but is named Stratford-on-Avon, despite the town being officially called Stratford-upon-Avon. Locally, the town is known as Stratford for short, and as such can be confused with the Stratford in the London Borough of Newham.