Billesley, Warwickshire

Billesley Manor dates from c.1610 and is a grade II* listed building.

[1] It is now operating as a hotel, and claims that a room in the building is the location in which Shakespeare's As You Like It was written.

[2] Authority for this is modern and originated in a claim in 1976 in Folklore of Warwickshire by Roy Palmer.

[3] The play is understood to be first performed in 1599[4] a decade before the building's stated date of construction in around 1610.

Of particular interest to architectural historians are the traditional closed family pews, as well as the miniature lofts; the church itself is of 18th century design.