Jane Austen's House Museum
Museum · The Hampshire house where Jane Austen lived from 1809 and prepared all six of her novels for publication.
Chawton
A Hampshire village of brick and thatched cottages where Jane Austen spent her last eight years — her house is now a museum, with Chawton House, her brother's manor, at the end of the lane.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 1 h 54 min by train · 2 h by car
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Jane Austen lived here from 1809 until shortly before her death in 1817, and it was here that she wrote or revised all six of her published novels.
Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor at the end of the village, belonged to her brother Edward Austen Knight, who gave his mother and sisters the cottage.
Her mother and her sister Cassandra are buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas, beside Chawton House.
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