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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.

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.

Alton Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Paul the Archivist, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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Alton

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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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