Jane Austen's House in Chawton, Hampshire

A must-see for fans of the Pride and Prejudice author, the Jane Austen House Museum is the only one of her residences that is open to the public today.

Take a tour of the modest cottage to see where Austen lived and wrote during the last eight years of her life, then explore the garden, which has been reconstructed with a range of plants common during the author's lifetime.