Old property records finally located Shakespeare's London home
History
By cross-referencing tax records with 16th-century maps, historians have pinpointed the exact doorstep where the playwright lived while writing his most famous tragedies.
While the world has long celebrated William Shakespeare, his physical footprint in London remained a ghost for centuries. Researchers recently solved this mystery by digging through the meticulous property records of the Parish of St Helen, discovering that the Bard lived at a specific address on St Andrew's Hill. This wasn't just a casual residence; he resided here in the late 1590s, the high-octane period when he was likely drafting Romeo and Juliet.