Hampshire
East Hampshire
Chawton

Chawton

Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of , England. The village lies within the South Downs National Park and is famous as the home of Jane Austen for the last eight years of her life.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Village with 545 residents
  • Description: village in Hampshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Chawton, Hampshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jane Austen’s House Museum and Chawton House.

Museum
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jane Austen's House is a small independent museum in the village of Chawton near in . It is a writer's house museum occupying the 17th-century house in which novelist Jane Austen spent the last eight years of her life, during which time she wrote, revised and made ready to be published all six of her novels, and the fragment Sanditon.

Library
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Grade II* listed manor house in on the South side of Chawton village, and the present building was started in 1580. In the late 18th century it belonged to Edward Austen Knight, a wealthy brother of the novelist Jane Austen.

Church
Photo: Portellophotography, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alton and Thedden.

Photo: AlasdairW, Public domain.
is a town in , surrounded by attractive countryside and villages that were once home to novelist Jane Austen, naturalist Gilbert White, and Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the large civil parish of in , England, about 1.3 miles south east of the centre of Bentworth village. Its nearest town is , about 3.5 miles east of . is situated 2 miles northwest of Chawton.

Hamlet
Photo: Michael Ford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the East Hampshire district of , England. It is 2.1 miles southeast of the town of . is situated 2 miles east of Chawton.

Chawton

Latitude
51.13396° or 51° 8′ 2″ north
Longitude
-0.98851° or 0° 59′ 19″ west
Population
545
Elevation
377 feet (115 metres)
Open location code
9C3X42M6+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29356768
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2653293
Wiki­data ID
Q2386975
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Chawton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشاوتون”
  • Bulgarian: “Чотън”
  • Cebuano: “Chawton”
  • Dutch: “Chawton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشاوتون”
  • Esperanto: “Chawton”
  • French: “Chawton”
  • Hebrew: “צ’וטון”
  • Irish: “Chawton”
  • Italian: “Chawton”
  • Japanese: “チョートン”
  • Ladin: “Chawton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chawton”
  • Persian: “چاوتون”
  • Polish: “Chawton”
  • Russian: “Чаутон”
  • Swedish: “Chawton”
  • Ukrainian: “Чавтон”
  • Welsh: “Chawton”
  • “Chawton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chawton”. Photo: TomHab, CC BY-SA 3.0.