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The Centre for the Study of Early Women's Writing
Photo: Charles D P Miller from Basingstoke, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A listed Elizabethan manor house (and garden) built around 1590, containing a library. The ‘Great House’ referred to in Jane Austen’s letters, it belonged to Jane Austen's brother.
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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The 17th-century house in which novelist Jane Austen spent the last eight years of her life, writing and revising six of her novels. Highlights of the museum include Austen's writing table, family heirlooms, and painstakingly recreated wallpaper. The museum opened in 1949.
Mid Hants Railway
Steam locomotives and vintage diesel trains links Alton's National Rail station to Alresford. A fantastic way to travel through the Hampshire countryside
Home of 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White, and a museum dedicated to Captain Lawrence 'Titus' Oates, the Antarctic explorer of the polar expedition with Captain Scott.