Much Ado about holiday letting

Shakespeare trust 'evicting Hathaway cottage tenants to make way for tourists'

- By Adam Dutton

A TEMPEST is brewing after trustees of Shakespeare's birthplace evicted tenants near Anne Hathaway's Cottage “to cash in on holiday lets”.

People living in a row of historic cottages just yards from the childhood home of the of the bard's wife have been given eight weeks to move out.

Some of the tenants, who pay pay around £800 a month in rent, have lived in the properties in Shottery, Warks, for decades.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust owns the eight homes in the pretty village on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Trustees say they need to carry out essential repairs and upgrades to the heating systems of the buildings which will take six months.