Waypoints

1. S : km 0 - alt. 85 m - Start on Overton Mews
2. 2 : km 0.08 - alt. 87 m - Turn left onto Station Road
3. 3 : km 0.27 - alt. 84 m - Turn right onto Lambs Close
4. 4 : km 0.32 - alt. 88 m - Turn left
5. 5 : km 0.4 - alt. 95 m - Turn slight left
6. 6 : km 0.46 - alt. 100 m - Turn right onto Overton Hill
7. 7 : km 0.47 - alt. 100 m - Turn right
8. 8 : km 1.38 - alt. 91 m - Turn sharp right onto Straight Lane
9. 9 : km 1.39 - alt. 91 m - Turn right
10. 10 : km 1.65 - alt. 87 m - Turn sharp right
11. 11 : km 1.67 - alt. 87 m - Turn sharp right
12. 12 : km 2.58 - alt. 97 m - Turn right onto Ashe Lane
13. 13 : km 2.7 - alt. 97 m - Ashe Rectory (now Ashe House RG25 3AQ: The Reverend George Lefroy moved into the rectory with his wife Anne (Madam Lefroy). Mr Lefroy became the Rector of Ashe in May 1783 and moved into Ashe Rectory, now known as Ashe House. Madame Lefroy soon became Jane's 'best loved and admired mentor' Claire Tomlinson, Jane Austen A life.
14. 14 : km 2.84 - alt. 96 m - Turn right
15. 15 : km 3.99 - alt. 94 m - Jane’s parents lived in Deane Parsonage when they first moved to Steventon “…before the ramshackle rectory at Steventon was put into better order.” Tomlinson p 20 Spring 1789 (when Jane was 13) a family with daughters (Martha and Mary Lloyd) moved into the area. Martha Lloyd became life long friend of Jane’s and married Jane’s brother Frank (after Jane’s death) and Mary Lloyd married Jane’s brother James. “Mrs Lloyd was the widow of a clergyman with aristocratic connections of the kind Mrs Austen herself boasted, and she made them welcome as a congenial addition to local society. “ Tomlinson, p77 “Mrs Lloyd rented Deane Parsonage from Mr Austen.” “Mary was Mrs Austen’s favourite; but, although she was close to her in age, Jane never liked her. She preferred Martha, nearly ten years older but with a sense of humour. Stories and poems were dedicated to Martha, and she and Jane were happy to share a bed when necessary; they would lie talking and laughing until two in the morning. From now on the Lloyds were a constant part of the Austen’s lives.” Tomlinson, p77 “Jane’s brother James later lived at Deane when he was his father’s curate and Jane’s letters record many visits to and fro. The church was rebuilt after Jane’s death, and the parsonage no longer exists.” http://www.seekingjaneausten.com/around%20steventon.html Deane, Hants, …Revd GA was the rector from 1773 till his death in 1805; the rectory in which the Austens lived was demolished in the mid-nineteenth century, and by 1900 the only trace of it that Constance Hill could find was the old-fashioned mud wall surrounding the site on the corner of the lane which passes the church The mud wall has in its turn gone, and the site is now a small meadow within a private garden. See R.Vick, ‘Deane Parsonage’, Collected Reports, IV. 343-5. Another house further down the lane was subsequently used as the rectory, but this is now in private ownership. All Saints Church itself was total re-built in 1818 at the expense of Mr Wither Bramston. Jane Austen’s Letters, Deirdre Lefay page 598-9
16. 16 : km 4 - alt. 94 m - Turn right
17. 17 : km 4.04 - alt. 94 m - Deane House, a late seventeenth-century brick building, home of the Harwood family for several generations, is situated close to the church. Jane Austen’s Letters, Deirdre Lefay page 598-9 “But the Harwood family too was in trouble, with an accumulation of debts and mortgages they could not hope to settle. The eldest son felt unable to marry and spent his life paying off his father’s debts, and the younger sank with his Terry wife from land-owner to humble yeoman farmer; they became something like Hampshire Durbeyfields.” Tomlinson page 92 “Another Steventon neighbor, old Mr Harwood at Deane, died at the same time (early 1813), leaving his family nothing but debts and mortgages. The younger Mr Harwood was a clergyman, and ‘”If Mrs Heathcote does not marry & comfort him now I shall think she… has no heart,” wrote Jane. He had loved Elizabeth Bigg since she was a girl, seen her married to Heathcote and then widowed, reviving his hopes; now he could not offer her anything but poverty. She liked him, but not well enough for that. He sold some land and struggled on at Deane, and she moved to the cathedral close in Winchester, where she and Alethea took a house together.” Tomlinson page 239 “Jane spent a quiet Christmas Day at Deane with the Harwoods…” (Christmas 1798) Tomlinson 148 “I was to have dined at Deane today, but the weather is so cold that I am not sorry to be kept at home by the appearance of Snow…The Snow came to nothing yesterday, so I did go to Deane, & returned home at 9’o’clock at night in the little carriage-& without being very cold,” Letter to Cassandra Monday 24-Wednesday 26 December 1798 Lefay p,30
18. 18 : km 4.1 - alt. 94 m - Turn right onto Manor Farm Lane
19. E : km 4.1 - alt. 94 m

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