Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Lennon spent his early years in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. He played in the wooded garden behind Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children's home near his childhood house.
The Beatles began recording Strawberry Fields Forever on the 24th of November 1966 at EMI Studios in London. They used a Studer J37 four-track machine to create three distinct versions of the track over five weeks.
Peter Goldmann directed the promotional film for Strawberry Fields Forever on 30 and the 31st of January 1967 at Knole Park in Kent. The clip featured reverse effects, jump-cuts from day to night, superimposition, and extreme close-up shots.
Capitol Records issued the double A-side single in the US on the 13th of February 1967 while EMI released it in the UK on the 17th of February. The record peaked at number 2 on the Record Retailer chart behind Engelbert Humperdinck's Release Me and reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
Yoko Ono officially dedicated the Strawberry Fields memorial in New York's Central Park in October 1985. The memorial spans an area within the park named after the song.