Museum · East Hampshire · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Jane Austen's House Museum is a museum in East Hampshire, Hampshire. This place has an audio tour of about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch. Within 600 m you'll find a bench, a public toilet and a bike pump.
Audio tour · Jane Austen's House Museum
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You're standing at Jane Austen's House in Chawton, a small village near Alton in Hampshire. Take a good look. It's a fairly ordinary seventeenth-century house, once known locally as Chawton Cottage. Yet one of England's most famous novelists did nearly all her serious work right here.
Read and hear the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
Source: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No water point or food stand within 1 km.
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Partly: according to OpenStreetMap it is only partly wheelchair accessible.
Yes: a public toilet at 30 m.
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