Jane Austen Literary Tour

A tour of her world.  Literary small group tour of England
What better way to see England than to spend time with like-minded people who share your interest and passion? Spend time  in Jane Austen’s world . . . includes a visit to Chawton Great House and Chawton Cottage. Explore the unique filming locations of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other adaptations of Jane’s great works.
If you're a Jane Austen fan, the names of the settings in her stories are as readily recognizable as those of her characters.  It's easier to follow in the footsteps of Lizzie and Darcy or Elinor and Marianne than you might think.

There are two options:
Travel in scheduled group tour with other fans, exploring the byways of the English countryside.

Join a scheduled Jane Austen Tour Sep 11-13, 2026

Take a trip back to Georgian England and the world of Austen's heroines. Visit the elegant city of Bath, made famous by so many of her novels and the Pump Room and Assembly Rooms, symbols of Regency glamour.  Watch the annual parade for the Jane Austen Festival. At the Jane Austen Centre, be guided by famous Austen characters on a journey through her life and works and enjoy an introduction to the Regency era. Visit Austen's charming cottage home in Chawton, the birthplace of her six beloved novels. Pay your respects at her burial place in the ancient city of Winchester. Explore grand houses she knew well, such as The Vyne, where she went to dances. and Chawton House, her brother's stately home, referred to by Jane as the 'Great House'. Visit the Holburne Museum (an important Bridgerton filming location) for a tour with a costumed guide. Identify backdrops and locations used in well-known scenes in TV and film adaptations of her works. Discover an old posting house and historic coaching inn. Enjoy a traditional afternoon tea and really immerse yourself in Jane Austen's world. 

 

Day 1 Morning departure from London with your driver/guide for the county of Hampshire. We take you back in time to the 18th and 19th Centuries, through a countryside of turnpikes and toll roads. Visit one of the important posting-houses and discover the fashionable modes of transport in Jane Austen's novels: the curricle, the barouche landau and the gig. Visit The Vyne, a large stately home where Jane and her sister attended society dances - guided tour focusing on Jane Austen. Continue to Winchester for a tour of the city, including  seeing the house where Austen died. Visit 11th Century Winchester Cathedral, to see where Jane Austen is buried and enjoy a tour of the Cathedral. This is truly Austen country, and we promise many surprising additions along the way! Overnight accommodation in Winchester hotel.

Day 2 Breakfast. Visit the elegant Georgian city of Bath and a walking tour of the sites and houses where Jane Austen lived and visited. Explore places made famous in her Bath novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, such as the Assembly Rooms, Pump Room, Abbey Church Yard and Bath Street. Visit the Jane Austen Centre and enjoy the authentic period atmosphere and watch the video of Jane Austen's Bath. Enjoy the atmosphere, and watch the Regency parade for the Jane Austen annual festival. Visit the Holburne Museum for a tour with a costumed guide; take in Sydney Gardens behind the museum (where Jane often visited), and see Regency china tea sets before you sit down for a cream tea. The Holburne Museum is also used in the filming of Bridgerton. Afternoon visit the picturesque village of Lacock, a popular setting for period dramas as it remains much as it did in the 18th Century. Lacock's Church Street and High Street appear as locations in Emma and Pride & Prejudice. Overnight accommodation in Winchester hotel.

Day 3 Breakfast. Journey through the English countryside, seeing villages with thatched roof cottages and houses very much as they were during Jane's time. Visit the site of Steventon Rectory, where Jane Austen was born and lived until she was twenty-five and where the initial drafts of Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were written. Halt at the old posting inn at Deane Gate and learn of its connections with Jane's brother. Visit Chawton House, an Elizabethan Manor that once belonged to Jane's brother. Explore Jane Austen's home in Chawton, where she lived for the last eight years of her life, and the museum housing a fine range of Austen memorabilia. It was here that she revised and decided to publish Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Close by is St Nicholas' Church, where Austen's mother and sister are buried. Return to London early evening.

• Group Size: 15 Sep 11-13, 2026
• Accomodation: 4 star hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, Cream Tea
• Transport: Motor Coach
• Whats included: Entrance fees to: Tour Guide, The Vyne, Winchester Cathedral, Holburne Museum, Jane Austen Centre, Jane Austen House, Chawton House
• $1699 sharing a twin room; Single $1899

Pre and post hotels and tours are available.

YOUR OWN GROUP TOUR

You can organize your own group of friends and fans, and we’ll plan a special itinerary just for your group.
Take a group tour back to Jane Austen's England, with a nostalgic backdrop of small villages, stately homes, and civilized gossip. Enjoy delicious Georgian-style afternoon teas and traditional pub lunches, while retracing Austen's own steps. Travel through historic toll gates and along old coach roads, explore the houses which inspired the grand homes in Austen's novels and the places she visited, as well as recognizable locations used in film and TV adaptations of her works.

Any of these can be added:

• Tour inside the house where Jane Austen died
• Watch the theatre production of Death Comes to Pemberley
• Enjoy a Jane Austen inspired Afternoon Tea
• A range of special exhibitions and displays including Jane Austen & the Art of Writing and Beyond the Bonnets
• Attend a Regency Ball
• Workshops: Regency Dance or Embroidery
• special events at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, - the annual Jane Austen Festival.
• Theatre performances, special interest tours and a Jane Austen statue at Winchester Cathedral.
  Austen and Regency themed events
• Film locations used in Jane Austen films/television series.
• Jane's childhood home in Steventon.
• Jane Austen House at Chawton. This Hampshire cottage was Jane Austen’s home and the birthplace of her six beloved novels. Jane Austen’s House Museum holds an unparalleled collection of objects relating to Jane Austen’s life and works, her family circle and her legacy.
• Winchester, where she died and is buried.
• Bath and the famous Pump Room, Assembly Rooms and Jane Austen Centre.
• Lyme Regis, which featured in Persuasion and has been used in several film and TV adaptations. Jane visited Lyme Regis twice. 
• Picturesque Lacock, a National Trust village, used as a location in Emma and Pride and Prejudice.
• Chatsworth, potentially the inspiration for Pemberley, Darcy's family home and the location for Death Comes to Pemberley.
• Goodnestone Park in Kent, which Jane visited frequently. Her brother and his wife lived on the estate.
• The National Trust properties of Sudbury House and Lyme Park, used as locations in Pride and Prejudice.
• Haddon Hall, also a film location for Pride and Prejudice.
• British Library to see her writing desk and manuscript.
• Locations used in the 2020 adaptation of Emma, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy. Locations include Firle Place, Chavenage House and Kingston Bapuize House. 

Plan to leave the US one day before the tour begins.

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