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The Great Hall, Westgate Museum and City Museum, Winchester

Although these three museums are separate buildings I’m linking them together because you can get an Explorer ticket to visit all three for 20% off the ticket price, which is what I did. As each place takes roughly 30 or so minutes to explore visiting them in one day is a good way of spending a morning, though your ticket does give you 12 months entry to them all. I followed the order recommended on the website but you can of course visit them in any order you want. Therefore I began at The Great Hall, the only remaining part of Winchester Castle which was constructed in 1067 by William the Conqueror.

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Winchester Cathedral

I’ve wanted to visit Winchester Cathedral for a while now due to the Jane Austen connection (she is buried here) but until I arrived I had no idea how large and full of interesting tombs, artefacts and museums it would prove to be.

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Chawton House and Gardens and St Nicholas Church, Hampshire

Back in March I travelled down to Winchester for a week, in part because visiting some Jane Austen related sites has long been on my bucket list, but also because I got an insanely cheap deal on train tickets. Unfortunately Jane Austen’s House was closed for refurbishment (but you can see a photo of the outside further down) – this includes things like her writing desk so I will be back at some point. But within the same village is Chawton House where she spent a lot of her time – it belonged to Austen’s brother Edward and is still owned by his descendents (though run via the Chawton House Trust as a charity).

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