Shottery

Shottery has a village hall, Shottery Memorial Hall, one secondary school, Stratford Girls' Grammar School, and one small primary school, Shottery St Andrew's CofE Primary School that has been open since the mid-19th century. The school has been threatened with closure numerous times due to local spending cuts; however, locals have always managed to raise the funds required to keep the school open. There is one pub (The Bell Inn). There was an Italian restaurant, the Santa Lucia, opposite the pub, but this has now closed. The latter building has long served as an eatery, and in Victorian times was a temperance movement soup kitchen. There was a Shottery Village Stores and Post Office, but…