Houghton’s Piece

Places of Interest

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.

Medstead and Four Marks railway station

Railway station

Photo: John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Medstead and Four Marks railway station is a railway station in the English county of Hampshire, serving the villages of Medstead and Four Marks. At 644 ft above sea level, it is currently the highest operational standard-gauge railway station in Southern England.

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.

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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.

Medstead

Village

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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.

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.

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