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Steventon was Jane Austen’s birthplace. It is a village in the north of Hampshire, some seven miles south west of Basingstoke. Her father was Rector of Steventon for 40 years until his retirement in 1801. Her eldest brother, James, succeeded him in this office.
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STEVENTON (St. Nicholas), parish, in the union and hundred of Basingstoke, Kingsclere and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Overton..
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In 1823 William Knight became rector of Steventon and moved into a newly-built rectory, having the old one pulled down. But the rest of the neighborhood hasn't changed! The lanes, hedgerows and meadows still look untouched, and the Steventon church where Mr. Austen preached looks nearly as it did to Jane and her family.
Jun 2, 2007 · June 2, 2007 by Vic. Below sits a photograph of all that remains of Steventon Rectory, which was razed in 1820 shortly after Jane’s death: A field with trees and a metal pump in an enclosure (you can view it at left of the photo). This pump replaced the wood pump from Jane’s time (see drawing).
Dec 26, 2012 · Finds from an archaeological dig at the birthplace of Jane Austen are beginning to reveal details of the author's early home life. Volunteers excavated the field in Steventon in the Hampshire...
Jane Austen: A brief biography. Jane Austen was born at the Rectory in Steventon, a village in north-east Hampshire, on 16th December 1775. She was the seventh child and second daughter of the rector, the Revd George Austen, and his wife Cassandra (née Leigh).
Steventon, a parish in Hants, 3 miles from Oakley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 6½ SW of Basingstoke. It has a post office under Whitchurch; money order office, Overton; telegraph office, Oakley railway station. Acreage, 2155; population, 240. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £380 with residence.
