St Nicholas Church, Steventon
Inside the church
| b. 16th December, 1775 at Steventon Rectory(6m. SW of Basingstoke) 1775-1801. Rectory gone, but site marked by pump in corner of field near the church. Here is a picture of the site of Steventon Rectory. It was taken from the lane leading up to the church. The lane behind the hedge in the middle of the picture leads into the village. The house that can be glimpsed through the tree on the right is the
new rectory (now a private house) which was built by Edward Austen Knight in 1824
when he demolished the old rectory. (All the pictures for the JAS have been taken by Allan Soedring)
| St Nicholas Church, Steventon Inside the church |
Chawton 1809-17, 1 m S of Alton, Chawton Cottage, now owned by Jane Austen Memorial Trust, best to phone for opening hours, 01420 83262. Jane Austen's House, Chawton | Ibthorpe House where Jane Austen often stayed with the Lloyds (w of Hurstbourne Tarrant). |
| She died at 8 College Street, Winchester, now a private house. 
| in Winchester Cathedral |
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Allan, who took all of the above photos, writes: I was photographing Hurtsbourne Tarrant church yesterday for my architecture pages when I spotted the memorial to the Debary sisters which rang a bell, i.e. the wonderful line in Jane Austen's letter about the state of the road between Ibthorpe and the Parsonage. So I have created a Web page about it, see Debary His other page with pictures of Jane Austen sites is: Allan's main page
| Admiral Sir Francis Austen 1774-1865 5th brother of Jane Austen, ex-Admiral of the Fleet, lived latterly in Wymering. His ghost has been seen at Wymering Manor, standing at the top of these stairs. He was a church warden to the Church of St Peter and St Paul and was great friends of the vicar, Revd. Nugee, who lived at Wymering Manor; the manor dates back to 1042 and features in the Doomsday Book. The Admiral has his grave in the nearby churchyard. His second wife and daughter are also buried there in large tombs. The Admiral's tomb is a flat stone. Hampshire Ghost Society |  The staircase in Wymering Manor, Old Wymering Lane, Cosham. This house is the oldest house in Portsmouth. It is magnificent. |
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-98) Mrs Reginal Hargreaves, who was Alice Liddell, of Alice in Wonderland fame, is buried at St Michael's Church in Lyndhurst in the family tomb.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) In St Mary's Church in East Worldham, near Alton, there is an effigy, which is claimed to be that of Phillipa, wife of Geoffrey Chaucer. Their son was Lord of the Manor here from 1418-1434. The village is not far from the Pilgrim's Way.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) Lived 1805-17 at Botley Hill House, in Botley near Southampton. The church in the town has a diamond shaped clock with a gilded crown. This clock came from the stables owned by William Cobbett, who then lived at Fairthorn Farm. Botley Mill is the site of his gardens and outbuildings. Inside the Market Hall are two engravings of Cobbett. Opposite the Market Hall on the other side of the square is the Cobbett memorial, put up by the Hampshire members of the institute of journalists to commemorate Cobbett’s time in Botley. He left Botley in 1820.
| Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens Birthplace (February 7th) was 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth (now 393 Commercial Road).The Museum, open from April - September) Dickens' father, a pay officer in the dockyard rented it from 1809-1812, where he got married to Elizabeth, and they had two children, Frances and Charls. Baptised at St Mary's Church, Fratton. Dickens lived at the house for only five months, his family moved nearer the dockyard and then to Southsea and left Portsmouth when he was two and a half. His brother, Alfred, died when he was two, and is buried in Widley cemetery in Portsmouth. |  |
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) 1865 Buys the Lawn at Holybourne, Alton, a county house she had just bought in preparation for her husband's retirement. She died in the house.
| He stayed in Winchester in the summer and autumn of 1819 and wrote some of his masterpieces there. There is a "Keats Walk" there celebrating his famous ode To Autumn written after such a walk. Keats is commemorated by a plaque on the wall of the chapel at Stansted House, Rowlands Castle, inscribed with "In this chapel in 1809 the poet, John Keats, 1793-1821, found imagery for The Eve of St Agnes and the Eve of St Mark"He spent last night on English soil in Bedhampton, Havant. |  The Old Mill, Bedhampton |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) born at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex.
Nevil Shute lived at the Old Mill, Langstone, Havant
Edward Thomas (1878-1917) near Steep 1916. Memorial Windows in churches at Steep and Eastbury, Berks.
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 It has a plaque on the left side of the front door | |  which is on the ridge of Steep Hill |
 Resting place of Edward Thomas in Agny |  |
 Memorial stone at Steep |
J.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) 1931 Holiday at Milford-on-Sea
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) in 1827 he went to his father's old school, Winchester. The Warden commemorates the St Cross almshouse.
Blue plaques:Hampshire: Threepwood, Record Road, Emsworth, Hants. Wodehouse's home P.G. Wodehouse named many of his characters after places in Hampshire, including the Duchess of Havant, Hon. Adelaide Liss, Bobby Wickham, and Lord Arthur Hayling and of course Lord Emsworth. | |  |
 | Charlotte M Yonge was born at Otterbourne House, near Winchester, Hampshire, on 11 August 1823. Charlotte was educated at home, initially by her mother, ‘on the Edgeworth system’. In 1862 her brother, Julian, returned with his family, so Charlotte and her mother moved to a neighbouring house, Elderfield. Her gardener lived at Rose Cottage, opposite Edlerfield. Charlotte died of pleurisy, after a short illness, at Elderfield on 24 March 1901, and was buried on the 29th at the foot of John Keble's granite memorial cross in Otterbourne churchyard, John Keble had come to the adjacent living of Hursley in 1836. She presented the lych gate to the church and there is a rood screen erected to the memory of her, between the choir and the congregation. Her chair is still in the church. Charlotte is commemorated in Winchester Cathedral with an ornamental screen dedicated to her |