A new thirteen-mile trail named The Writers’ Way has been developed by Hampshire County Council and East Hampshire District Council. It takes you around some of the countryside which would have been familiar to author Jane Austen, nature and wildlife writer the Reverend Gilbert White who is said to have transformed the way we think about the natural world today, and William Cobbett, who described the area in his book Rural Rides.
On the trail you can visit the Jane Austen House Museum in Chawton where the author lived and wrote her six novels, and call in at the nearby Curtis Museum in Alton, which has a Jane Austen trail highlighting the sights which might have been familiar to her and inspired her.