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Jane Austen’s House Museum

Museum

Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jane Austen's House is a small independent museum in the village of Chawton near Alton in Hampshire. 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.

Alton railway station

Railway station

Photo: Clive Warneford, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Alton railway station serves the market town of Alton, in the English county of Hampshire. The station is the terminus for two railway lines: the Alton line, which runs to Brookwood and on to London Waterloo, and the Watercress Line, a heritage railway which runs to Alresford.

Curtis Museum

Museum

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Curtis Museum in Alton is a local history museum in Hampshire, England. The museum was founded in 1865 by Dr William Curtis. In 2014, ownership of the museum was transferred to the Hampshire Cultural Trust as part of a larger transfer of museums from Hampshire County Council and Winchester City Council.

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Alton

Photo: AlasdairW, Public domain.

Alton is a town in Hampshire, surrounded by attractive countryside and villages that were once home to novelist Jane Austen, naturalist Gilbert White, and Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates.

Bentworth

Village

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Bentworth is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The nearest town is Alton, which lies about 3 miles east of the village.

Medstead

Village

Photo: OLU, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Medstead is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Alton, which lies 4.3 miles northeast of the village.

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