Jane Austen Heritage Trail #1

JANE AUSTEN Author: 1775-1817 The Jane Austen Heritage Trail begins here. In the Spring of 1783, at the age of seven, Jane, her sister Cassandra and their cousin Jane Cooper, attended a school nearby run by Mrs Ann Crawley. The exact location of this school is unknown. An outbreak of Typhus closed the school after only a few weeks, and the girls returned home to Steventon, Jane's birthplace in the north of Hampshire.

High Street, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #2

This is the site of All Saints Church destroyed in 1940 during the blitz on the city in World War II. It was here that Jane Austen worshipped during her stay in Southampton

High Street, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #3

Jane Austen author: 1775-1817. Spa Fountain Gardens. Jane was a keen walker and when she lived in Southampton she frequently visited the gardens here with their views across the River Test. The spa water was said to cure everything except a broken heart. It was the visit by Frederick, Prince of Wales, to the well in 1750 which led to Southampton becoming a spa resort.

Arundel Circus, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #4

JANE AUSTEN Author: 1775-1817 JANE AUSTEN'S HOUSE Janes's home from 1807 to 1809 was cited here in Castle Square. The house was rented from the Marquis of Lansdowne, who lived opposite in his mock-Gothic castle. The Austen's garden stretched back to the town walls, affording extensive views of the New Forest. At that time the River Test, at high tide, reached the base of the walls.

Castle Square, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #5

Jane Austen author: 1775-1817. The Long Rooms & Hot Baths. Built in 1767 on the shore-line outside the town walls, The Long Rooms and Hot Baths were the fashionable centre of Southampton as a spa resort. The Lance Family of Chessel House, Bitterne (where Lances Hill preserves their name), invited the Austens to a dance in The Long Rooms in January 1807, shortly after they had moved into their new home in Castle Square.

Hotel, Western Esplanade, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #6

Jane Austen author: 1775-1817. Site of the Theatre Royal. The Theatre Royal had been built by the proprietor, Mr Collins, in 1798. The Austen Family visited the theatre here in Monday 14 Septembet 1897, to see two plays, 'The Way To keep Him' and 'Of Age Tomorrow', in which Mr John Bannister (1790-1836) played leading roles. The Austens were fond of the theatre and Jane wrote plays to entertain her family and friends.

French Street, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #7

JANE AUSTEN Author: 1775-1817 WATERGATE & QUAY Jane's niece, fourteen year old Fanny Knight, records in her diary of Tuesday, 15 September 1807, that Jane and the rest of the family embarked from here to visit friends in Hythe for afternoon tea. Fanny writes 'Mama to everyone's astonishment was of the party and not at all sick'

High Street, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #8

JANE AUSTEN Author: 1775-1817 THE PLATFORM (THE BEACH) Georgian Southampton was a Spa Resort. Running East from this spot was a waterside promenade for visitors and citizens to take daily exercise. Jane and her family frequently walked along this shore (1806-1809), sometimes as far as Cross House Quay, where where the Itchen Ferry operated. On 16 September 1807 the Austens used the ferry to visit Netley Abbey. In the winter the meadows froze and Jane's brother skated here.

Town Quay, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Jane Austen Heritage Trail #9

JANE AUSTEN Author: 1775-1817 DOLPHIN HOTEL It is said that Jane celebrated her 18th birthday here in the ballroom of the Dolphin on 16 December 1793 with her brother Frank. Jane was staying with her cousins, the Butler-Harrisons, in St Mary's Street. John Butler-Harrison was twice Mayor of Southampton. When she was living in Southampton in the winter of 1808/09, according to Jane's letters, she attended two other dances at the Dolphin ballroom, a beautiful bow-windowed room on the first floor.

35 High Street, Southampton, United Kingdom

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