Jane Austen's House

This museum at Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, is the house where Jane Austen wrote and revised her famous novels, including Pride And Prejudice. It contains a collection of items connected with the author and her family, including the table where Jane used to write, jewellery, examples of her needlework, family portraits and some first editions of her novels.

St Nicholas' Church

Dedicated to St Nicholas, the church in Steventon, Hampshire, is a small, simple, Norman building which was originally constructed around 1200. IIt was an everyday part of Jane's life, and she worshipped there for her first 25 years.

Jane was baptised here, along with four of her siblings – Henry, Cassandra, Francis, and Charles. Her grandmother, eldest brother James and both his wives, Anne and Mary, are buried here. Every memorial, except one, inside the church, has a direct connection to Jane Austen. Visitors can look around the church and enjoy its peacefulness as Jane did.

Jane Austen Centre

The Jane Austen Centre is a new permanent exhibition that tells the story of Jane's life in Bath and the effect that living there had on her and her writing.

The author is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous residents and visitors. She paid two long visits to the city towards the end of the 18th century, and from 1801 to 1806 Bath was her home. Her intimate knowledge of the place is reflected in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral has its origins in the seventh century, when a Christian church was first built on this site. Since then it has played a fundamental part in the life of the ancient city - and a role in the history of the country.

Jane Austen died in Winchester in 1817, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral, near the centre of the north aisle, where visitors can see her tombstone. "It is a satisfaction to me to think that [she is] to lie in a building she admired so much," Austen's sister Cassandra wrote later.

But why was Jane Austen, a comparatively unknown novelist at the time of her death, buried among saints, kings and bishops? Opinion is divided, but one suggestion is that it was because several members of her family were clergy and had high-ranking connections within the Church.

The Cathedral offers pre-booked tours, one called Jane Austen: Her Life and Times. This tour offers visitors an intimate and often amusing insight into her life.

City Museum, Winchester

Displays bring to life Winchester's nationally important story, using the city's rich archaeological and local history collections. Winchester was a major Roman centre, Venta Belgarum, as shown by the many mosaics on view, and became the principal city of King Alfred and later Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings.

Exhibits highlight Winchester's revival as a fashionable county town in the 18h century and the emergence of Winchester's first hospital. There are three or four items showing Jane Austen's connections she died here in 1817), including a purse she made and a page of a poem she wrote.