Walk now full. 5 miles at Upper Farringdon &Chawton

The walk leaves the village of Upper Farringdon and goes down a country lane before joining a disused railway. After leaving the railway it goes on a good track through fields and a wood, and then comes down to the village of Chawton and Jane Austen’s house, where she lived with her sister Cassandra. It also passes the house where Edward Austen Knight, Jane Austen’s brother used to live, where Jane spent much of her time, and also the church where she visited every Sunday.

The route then goes through woods and fields back to Upper Farringdon, passing Massey’s Folly, built by the rector Thomas Massey, and then All Saints church with its ancient yews. One of the yews is 3,000 years old and is just over 30 feeet in circumference; it was planted 2,200 years before the mediaeval church itself was built in 1200. Gilbert White was curate here before moving on to Selborne.