Winchester & Jane Austen's House Museum

After joining the coach at your chosen point we head for our destination - Winchester. The drop off point will be on The Bradway, next to King Alfred's Statue. The driver will advise you of your expected arrival time after they have left their last local departure point. You will have free time here for lunch before the coach transfers you to Jane Austen's House.

Entry is booked at 13.30hrs, and you will have the afternoon at leisure to explore. The coach will depart at 16.30hrs to head back to the local area.

Jane Austen’s House in the picturesque Hampshire village of Chawton is one of the most important literary sites in the world. It was in this inspiring cottage that Jane Austen’s genius flourished and where she wrote, revised, and had published all six of her globally beloved novels. Step back in time to 1816 and follow in Jane’s footsteps; discover the rooms where she lived and wrote and see her writing table, jewellery, letters and first editions of her novels up close.
Explore the pretty cottage garden, try your hand at traditional garden games and enjoy Regency dress up, bonnet designing and more!
Browse the unique rage of gifts and books in the beautiful Gift Shop and relax with an ice cream on the lawn.

In celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday in 2025, a new permanent exhibition, Jane Austen and the Art of Writing, will open in October 2024. This inspirational exhibition will celebrate and centre Jane Austen as a ground-breaking and ambitious writer in the very house where she created her six beloved novels and will directly link Jane Austen’s creative process with the domestic space from which it came. Drawing on the House’s extraordinary collection, it will celebrate Jane Austen’s creative genius and show how seriously she took her craft, animating and sharing the physical and mental processes she used to develop her novels – from her earliest teenage writings to her adult novels, inspirations, pioneering techniques, and publication. It will showcase the museum’s unique collection of manuscript letters and first editions and use facsimiles of surviving manuscripts to provide a hands-on experience for visitors and to explain Jane Austen’s writing process. This permanent exhibition opened in October 2024 and will be free with House entry.

PLEASE NOTE: 
The above timings and information are subject to traffic conditions and we reserve the right to make any changes necessary without prior notification.
Coaches for our Day Trips will be in either 'Motts' or 'Crusader' Livery.