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David Williams

Billesley Manor Hotel and Spa: the country retreat where history meets world-class hospitality

Billesley Manor Hotel and Spa - (David Williams)

William Shakespeare is credited with the invention or introduction of a staggering 1,700 words still used in English today, including ‘traditional’, ‘accommodation’, ‘majestic’, ‘accessible’, ‘admirable’ and ‘bedazzle’.

Any one of which not only applies to 16th century Billesley Manor Hotel and Spa - some four miles from Stratford-upon-Avon where the bard was born - but might actually have been composed there too.

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