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2 days ago · Jane Austen’s House is the most treasured Austen site in the world. This inspiring Hampshire cottage was Jane Austen’s home and the birthplace of her six beloved novels.
3 days ago · Jane Austen, the famed author who was born nearly 250 years ago in the Hampshire village of Steventon, is helping to breathe new life into silk ribbon weaving. While there are only four silk ribbon weavers left in the UK, one of them is at Whitchurch Silk Mill, a living history museum located six miles from Austen‘s birthplace.
5 days ago · A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4. Covers the areas around the northern edge of the county, from Thorngate and Andover hundreds on the western border with Dorset, around to Odiam and Crundall hundreds in the north-east of the county. It includes accounts of the towns of Andover, Aldershot and Basingstoke.
3 days ago · May arrived before we knew it! Rogation Sunday walk took place on the 5 th from Ashe to North Waltham via Steventon, a jolly time from what Ian said. Ascension Benefice service took place at St Nicholas’ in Steventon on Thursday 9 th at 10.30am. I don’t think many knew about it hence the small congregation!
2 days ago · Philadelphia and Eliza Hancock were, according to Le Faye, "the bright comets flashing into an otherwise placid solar system of clerical life in rural Hampshire, and the news of their foreign travels and fashionable London life, together with their sudden descents upon the Steventon household in between times, all helped to widen Jane's ...
4 days ago · Rooksbury Mill & Mill House, Andover, Hampshire, England. Hampshire, administrative, geographic, and historic county of south-central England. It is bounded to the west by Dorset and Wiltshire, to the north by Berkshire, to the east by Surrey and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel. Hampshire, England.
3 days ago · Its eastern boundary is formed by the high road from Alton to Odiham, and the village lies about half a mile to the west of this road and is connected with it by Stancombe Lane. The principal road through the village is that from Shalden Green to Alton.
