Bidford on Avon (Scan from 1991)

Bidford on Avon (Scan from 1991)

(We would pass this way again 12 years later on the Heart of England Way in 2003)

The bridge and the Church of St Laurence at Bidford on Avon. The story goes that William Shakespeare was once involved in a drinking match in Warwickshire. Roused from his stupor the following day, the Bard neatly rounded up his impression of the little villages close to his place of birth: Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillboro, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom and Drunken Bidford.