Curtis MuseumGilbert White's House and Oates MuseumJane Austen's House MuseumThe Allen Gallery
Curtis Museum has one of the finest local history collections in Hampshire, exploring 100 million years of history Displays include prehistoric tools, Roman pottery reconstruction, Saxon burials, the Battle of Alton 1643, the notorious tale of Sweet ...
Gilbert White was aged 7 or 8 when the White family moved from the Vicarage on Selborne's Plestor, to this house, called 'The Wakes' (named after the Wake family who had lived here previously). At that time the property would have been no more than a...
'The whole of the shrubbery border will soon be very gay with pinks and Sweet Williams in addition to the Columbines already in bloom.' - Letter to Cassandra Austen, 29 May 1811. The novelist Jane Austen is known worldwide for her popular novels des...
