Places where Jane stayed

The Vyne, near Basingstoke. We know that Jane Austen came to dances here.

Southampton.

We know that Jane attended dances in the ballroom of the Dolphin Hotel. It has the largest unsupported bay windows in the country.

 

Ashe Village.
A few miles north of Steventon is the village of Ashe, where Jane's father was also the rector and Jane visited her friends the Lefroy's at Ashe House.

This is an old coaching inn south of Steventon, where horses were changed on the way to and from London. Stage coaches carried the mail, and Jane Austen walked to here to send and receive her letters. The reciepent paid for the mail, as this was before the invention of postage stamps.

                                           

                                                       Dancing in the Assembly Room