Steventon, Hampshire

Steventon

Steventon Church
Steventon
Steventon shown within Hampshire
Population 207 (2011 Census)[1]
Civil parish
  • Steventon
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Basingstoke
Postcode district RG25
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament

Steventon is a rural village with a population of about 250 in north Hampshire, England. Situated 7 miles south-west of the town of Basingstoke, between the villages of Overton, Oakley and North Waltham, it is close to Junction 7 of the M3.

Steventon is best known as the birthplace of the author Jane Austen, who lived there from 1775 to 1801, when she moved to Bath with her parents. Though the Rectory in which she wrote Pride & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Sense & Sensibility was pulled down around 1824, the site is still marked by an old lime tree that is believed to have been planted by her eldest brother, James, who took over the parish from his father.

The 12th-century church of St Nicholas, where the Austens were rectors and Jane worshipped, stands little changed from their day. Inside are memorial tablets to James Austen, his nephew William Knight and their families, together with the Digweeds who rented the Steventon Estate during the Austen-Knight period. Outside in the churchyard are their graves together with those of later Lords of the Manor of Steventon.

Governance

The village is a civil parish and part of the Overton, Laverstoke and Steventon ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.[2] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighboourhood Statistics. Office for National Statististics. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Basingstoke and Deane Wards info". 2010. Archived from the original on October 24, 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2010.


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