Wilmcote is a village, and since 2004 a separate civil parish, in the English county of Warwickshire, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Walford's son and heir, also Matthew, married Elizabeth Jones and died in 1729, leaving his estates to be held jointly by his five daughters.

At the time of the Inclosure in 1742–3 the manor of Wilmcote was included in that of Aston Cantlow, and Elizabeth Walford, widow, appears in the Award only as the proprietor of 5-yard-lands in the common field.

Today the area has many small disused quarries, mostly filled in, and just-visible paths of tramways linking them to the canal.

There are several rows of former quarry workers cottages, built in Wilmcote stone, and a former pub which was known as the Masons' Arms.

Wilmcote is part of the Aston Cantlow ward of Stratford on Avon District Council, and is represented by Councillor Ian Shenton, Conservative.

[8] Nationally it is part of Stratford on Avon constituency, whose member of parliament following the 2010 election is Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservative Party.

In the 14th century the advowson was held with the manor of Little Wilmcote, until in 1481 Henry de Lisle gave it to the Gild of the Holy Cross at Stratford.

The modern church of St Andrew, built in 1841, is a monument to the influence of the Oxford Movement in the parish.

Francis Fortescue-Knottesford and his son, Edward Fortescue , who became the first curate, to meet the semi-industrial conditions created by the opening of the cement works in the 1830s.

[10] Wilmcote railway station is situated on the Stratford-upon-Avon branch line (one of the Snow Hill Lines) and is served by West Midlands Trains with services to Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham Snow Hill whilst Chiltern Railways serve Leamington Spa and London Marylebone.

The minutes of the Stratford Corporation, 11 November 1584 (approximately a decade before the play), mention "the tythes of Wyncote", the very spelling of the village that appears in the Folio text of The Shrew.