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Chawton
Village and parish in Hampshire, England

Chawton

Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

Plan a trip to Chawton→From London

The village lies within the South Downs National Park and is famous as the home of Jane Austen for the last eight years of her life.

Get in

Getting to Chawton

Alton is easiest accessed by car. It is just off the A31 between Farnham and Winchester. Alton can be accessed from the north by leaving the M3 at Junction 5, heading towards Odiham on the A287 for about 600 metres and thence to Alton on the B3349. Alton can be accessed from the south on the A32.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Jane Austen's House

    Winchester Rd, Chawton, GU34 1SD, enquiries@janeaustens.house.

  2. 02
    Gilbert White's House and the Oates Collections

    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.

  3. 03
    Chawton House Library
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Watercress Line

    Steam locomotives and vintage diesel trains links Alton's National Rail station to Alresford.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The George

    Butts Rd,.

  2. 02
    The Greyfriar

    Winchester Road, Chawton, GU34 1SB.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Hassocks5489 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.