Arden, Warwickshire
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The Forest of Arden is a former forest and culturally defined area located in the English West Midlands,[1] that in antiquity and into the Early Modern Period included much of Warwickshire, and parts of Shropshire,[2][3][4] Staffordshire, the West Midlands, and Worcestershire.[5][6][7] It is associated with William Shakespeare as a territory of his youth, and the setting of some of his drama.
The Forest of Arden area was first mapped according to the Roman roads which conceptually bounded it: in the West by the Icknield Street, in the South by the Salt Road (the modern Alcester to Stratford Road), in the East by the Fosse Way, and in the North by the Watling Street.[8][9][10][11] The Gough Map shows this traditional extent of the forest.[1]
More recently the shorter term 'Arden' has been used to describe a smaller area primarily concentrated in the historic county of Warwickshire and parts of the modern West Midlands metropolitan county.