Winchester

City Mill

Winchester Cathedral

Chesil Rectory, the oldest house in Winchester, built in 1450

No. 5 Bridge Street, where we stayed

King Alfred

St. Mary's Abbey, now home of the Mayor of Winchester

High Street on a market day

Medieval Tiling

This Laurence Washington is a great-uncle of the other Laurence Washington who was a direct ancestor of George Washington

 The Pentice was a row of shops that was on the northern border of William the Conqueror's palace, 1086

Union Jacks, the Jamie Oliver restaurant where we had lunch

 Ruins of Winchester Castle

 King Arthur's Round Table

 Queen Victoria

 The Great Hall, the only part of Winchester Castle that remains after Cromwell & the Civil War

 Queen Eleanor's Garden, a recreation of a medieval garden

 This wall chart has the names of every local MP up until the 19th century

 The West Gate

Jane Austen Pilgrimage

Jane Austen's House at Chawton, where she lived from 1809 until her death in 1817

Jane's writing table, where she revised her early novels and wrote her later ones

Jane's bedroom

Letter from Winston Churchill, where he mentions enjoying her novels

Jane's mother's room

The intricate quilt that she worked on with her sister Cassandra and their mother

The Admiral's room (a guest room that her Admiral brother slept in)

Gifts from her two sailor brothers, including carvings by the Admiral

The back of the house

Winchester Cathedral

Jane Austen's gravestone

Memorial plaque, added in 1900

Memorial window for Jane Austen, added in 1900