Stratford Armouries is a small museum attached to the Stratford-upon-Avon Lodge Retreat,[1] a hotel offering cabin-based accommodation located near to the village of Snitterfield, approx 4 miles from Straford-upon-Avon town centre.

In the nineteenth century James's Great Grandfather Thomas Mabbutt was the managing director of the Abingdon Gunworks Company in Birmingham manufacturing Snider, Chassepot and Martini guns.

It was open to the public and included a wide range of exhibits - the most noteworthy included a life-sized armoured Indian elephant, a cannon dating from 1450, and a giant crossbow modelled on Leonardo da Vinci's original design.

[2] The site was then redeveloped as a lodge retreat hotel with the current smaller museum housed in an annex.

[6] The second room contains a reconstruction of a trench from the First World War[7] and the remains of a Vickers Wellington bomber.