Chawton - Jane Austen Celebration Walks
Jane Austen spent the last eight years of her life at Chawton Cottage next to where we start this walk. We are able to step out into the countryside that Jane knew and walked. Whilst in Chawton she revised and added to her works and finally had the breakthrough in being published with Sense and Sensibility in 1811, Pride and Prejudice in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814 and Emma in 1816. We head South to Farringdon, a village where Jane would walk to pay visits before looping back mainly through farmland to Chawton. Though there are short stretches of country lane the walk is largely through mainly arable farmland with a section of about 1.5km along a disused railway.
One of Jane Austen’s letters to sister Cassandra when she lived in Chawton detailed a walk to drink tea in Faringdon and this walk will do just this minus the tea drinking, unless you bring a flask! Our route South to Faringdon leaves the from near the cottage where Jane lived for her most successful literary years in her lifetime. We pass the grand Chawton House and head through parkland and fields with our return from Faringdon being largely along a disused railway.
Walks Organised by Ramblers, for further information contact
Lead Walker : Harry Mycock
- https://www.ramblers.org.uk/
- Telephone: 020 3961 3232
Chawton - 9.5mile Morning Walk
Event: Sunday 3 August, 10am
Location: The Green opposite Jane Austen House, Chawton, GU34 1SE
Tickets: FREE
Chawton 4.5mile Evening Walk
Event: Wedesday 6 August, 6pm
Location: The Green opposite Jane Austen House, Chawton, GU34 1SE
Tickets: FREE
Chawton 4.5mile Morning Walk
Event: Friday 8 August, 10.30am
Location: The Green opposite Jane Austen House, Chawton, GU34 1SE
Tickets: FREE