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Discover Hampshire and Jane Austen

  • Jane Austen's House, Chawton, Hampshire - 1917 Plaque ©Peter Smith, Jane Austen's House

  • Jane Austen's House, Chawton, Hampshire - Lady in doorway ©Rob Stothard for Jane Austen's House

  • Jane Austen's house museum ©Jane Austen's house museum

    jane austens house museum
  • Jane Austen's House, Chawton, Hampshire - Pride and Prejudice first edition ©Peter Smith, Jane Austen's House Museum

  • The South Front of Hinton Ampner with the lawn and flower border ©National Trust Images, James Dobson

    The South Front of Hinton Ampner with the lawn and flower border
  • The Library at Hinton Ampner, Hampshire ©National Trust Images, James Dobson

    The Library at Hinton Ampner
  • The fireplace in the Entrance Hall at Hinton Ampner ©National Trust Images, James Dobson

    Hinton Ampner, Hampshire - The fireplace in the Entrance Hall at Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
  • Engine at Milestones Museum of Living History

  • Streets 'History Saves the World' at Milestones Museum of Living History

  • Teddy Bears at Milestones Museum of Living History

  • Mid Hampshire railway, Alresford, Mid Hants Railway SM©S Morley

5 day tour
From £499 per person - minimum 20 passengers

On this tour, we discover Hampshire and find out more about Jane Austen, one of England’s favourite authors. Visit the home of Jane Austen at Chawton where she spent the last 8 years of her life. The famous author did most of her mature writing here including ‘Persuasion’ and ‘Emma’. Also, see her final resting place in Winchester Cathedral, a towering gothic building. Experience a Hampshire highlight as you take a ride of the steam-hauled Watercress Line. See paintings and other art objects at the National Trust’s Hilton Ampner. Visit Milestones Living History Museum before taking a relaxing cruise on the Basingstoke Canal.


Dates

April - October 2024 & 2025


Suggested itinerary by coach

Day 1

Travel to your hotel

Day 2

Watercress Line and Hinton Ampner

We start our Hampshire discovery in the market town of Alton (Tuesday market). We join the ‘Watercress Line’ (the Mid Hants Railway – running selected dates), for the 10 mile journey to Alresford. Re joining the coach we travel on to the National Trust’s Hilton Ampner, an elegant country house with an outstanding collection of furniture, paintings and objets d’art. The garden is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of 20th century garden design.

Day 3

Milestones and Basingstoke Canal Cruise

Milestones, Hampshire’s Living History Museum, comes as something of a surprise. Inside what looks a modern sports hall is a remarkable recreation of a Victorian town, with cobbled streets, traditional shops, a village green, a pub, a large collection of commercial vehicles including a tram and a bus, penny slot machines, costumed characters and much more. In the afternoon we take a relaxing 2½ hour cruise on the Basingstoke Canal.

Day 4

Jane Austen’s House Museum and Winchester Cathedral

We visit Chawton and the house where Jane Austen lived for the last eight years of her life and where she wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. In Winchester we visit the magnificent Cathedral and see where she was buried. Don’t miss a visit to The Great Hall to see the greatest symbol of medieval mythology, King Arthur’s Round Table.

Day 5

Return home


Greatdays offer a selection of quality hotels in Southampton.


Dates 5 days / 4 nights 
2024 dates Price on request
2025 dates  From £499.00 per person

Single room supplement available upon request.

 

All prices are per person based on sharing a double or twin room and with one free place for a coach driver or group organiser in a single room, both are based on a minimum 20 full fare paying passengers. Prices do not include coach hire or travel insurance. Dates are subject to availability. Smaller groups can be quoted for on request. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. Our website policy is to use only copyright free images or images which have been authorised to us for free use by the owner. If you consider an image to be unauthorised or to be your property, please contact us immediately and if invalid we will have the image removed. If your image requires crediting or is missing a copyright statement then we will be pleased to add this to the webpage, contact us at info@greatdays.co.uk National Trust images supplied by https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk

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