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Alton

Alton 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jane Austen’s House Museum and Alton railway station.

Museum
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jane Austen's House is a small independent museum in the village of 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.

Railway station
Photo: Clive Warneford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the market town of , in the English county of . The station is the terminus for two railway lines: the Alton Line, which runs to and on to London Waterloo, and the Mid Hants Watercress Railway which runs to Alresford.

Town hall
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is a municipal building in the Market Square in , England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Alton Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Worldham and West Worldham.

Village
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the East Hampshire district of , England. It is 1.9 miles east of ; and 1.9 miles south-west of .

Hamlet
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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 southeast of Alton.

Alton

Latitude
51.1532° or 51° 9′ 12″ north
Longitude
-0.9688° or 0° 58′ 8″ west
Elevation
354 feet (108 metres)
Open location code
9C3X523J+7F
Geo­Names ID
7298640
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