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Steventon is a village and a civil parish with a population of about 250 in north Hampshire, England. Situated 7 miles south-west of the town of Basingstoke, between the villages of Overton, Oakley and North Waltham, it is close to Junction 7 of the M3 motorway.
Dec 26, 2012 · Volunteers excavated the field in Steventon in the Hampshire countryside in 2011 where the village's old rectory once stood. The process of cleaning and interpreting the finds has yielded a...
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.
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.
Feb 13, 2018 · Jane Austen’s childhood home (Steventon Rectory) was torn down long ago, but some things never change in the English countryside. There used to be an old pump that marked the spot of the Austens’ home in Steventon, Hampshire. The rectory (or parsonage) was one home in the small country parish.
Visit Jane Austen's House - the Hampshire cottage at which Jane Austen lived and penned her novels, including the timeless Pride and Prejudice. A brief history of Jane Austen's life, from her birth in Steventon to her death in Winchester, via Bath, Southampton and Chawton.
Aug 23, 2013 · Steventon in Hampshire seems such an unlikely place to have delivered to the world one of our finest Georgian writers but a stroll down the lane from the church towards the site of the old rectory where Jane Austen was born, makes it entirely right.
