Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child in the hamlet of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about 1.6km west of Stratford-upon-Avon. The earliest part of the house was built prior to the 15th century; the higher part is 17th century. It had more than 36 hectares of land attached to it, being known as Hewlands Farm in Shakespeare's day, so to call it a cottage is a misnomer, as it is much larger than the term usually means.
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