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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.

Chawton House

Library

Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Chawton House is a Grade II* listed manor house in Hampshire on the south side of Chawton village, near Alton, and the present building was started in 1580.

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.

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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.

West Worldham

Hamlet

Photo: Michael Ford, CC BY-SA 2.0.

West Worldham is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Worldham, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 2.1 miles southeast of the town of Alton.

East Worldham

Village

Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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

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