An Austen Adventure: The Film Sites

October 4 - 11, 2025

An Austen Adventure: The Film Sites

October 4 - 11, 2025

Embark on a fascinating journey through the heart of Jane Austen’s world with a comprehensive tour that takes you to key locations in her life and works. Start in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen spent the last years of her life writing her iconic novels. Visit her charming cottage, now a museum, and explore the picturesque village that inspired many of her stories. In Winchester, the author’s final resting place, stroll through the historic cathedral where she was laid to rest. The city also offers a glimpse into Austen's life during her later years. Bath, with its elegant Georgian architecture, offers a vibrant backdrop to Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Walk the same streets she once did, and visit the Roman Baths and Assembly Rooms featured in her works. Next, head to Lyme Regis, a coastal gem immortalized in Persuasion, where you can visit the famous Cobb and imagine Anne Elliot’s walk along the shore. Sheffield, home to several of Austen’s brothers, offers a glimpse into her family life. Finally, explore iconic movie locations like Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, and Lyme Park, all featured in film adaptations of her novels, transporting you into the world of Austen's timeless romance and social intrigue.

Cost:
$3,000 (per person, double occupancy)
$3,650 (single occupancy)
$500 deposit required to secure your space.

Detailed Itinerary

    • Make your way to Winchester and check into the Hotel at 4:00 p.m.

      • Enjoy time on your own exploring this very walkable city before our tour begins.

    • Breakfast at the hotel

    • 9:30 a.m. Depart hotel by coach for Chawton

      • Visit Chawton Cottage Museum

        • Visit Jane Austen’s House, the enchanting Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her novels, including the timeless Pride and Prejudice

      • Free time for Lunch

      • Visit Chawton House

        • Discover the now restored “Great House” referred to in Jane Austen’s letters. This Elizabethan Manor House once belonged to Jane’s brother, Edward.

      • Return to Winchester for leisure time in the evening

    • Breakfast at the hotel

      • Walking tour of Winchester

      • Guided tour of Winchester Cathedral

        • Guided tour of cathedral where Jane Austen is buried. As 2025 is the 250th Anniversary of when Jane was born, the cathedral will be unveiling a special statue to pay tribute to the great writer. The date of unveiling is TBD.

      • Free time for Lunch

      • Board coach for Lacock Village

        • This medieval village is a firm favorite for film and TV producers, most notably for its picturesque streets and historic cottages, untouched by modern alterations. The village’s most famous appearnces include Downton Abbey, the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice, and Cranford.

      • Continue to bath for check in at hotel.

        • Hampton by Hilton Bath

      • Dinner and evening at leisure

    • Breakfast at the hotel

      • Walking tour of Bath

        • Walking tour of the beautiful Georgian city, with strong links to Regency England and Jane Austen era.

      • Visit Jane Austen Centre

        • A celebration of Bath’s most famous resident. See the extensive collection of dresses, bonnets, coats, spencers, and accessories.

      • Free time for lunch

      • Visit Holburne Museum with Afternoon Tea

        • Visit the Holburne Museum for a tour with a costumed guide; take in Sydney Gardens behind the museum (where Jane often visited), and view the artwork behind your favorite Jane Austen novels and regency china tea sets before you sit down in the Ballroom for a cream tea.

    • Dinner and evening at leisure

    • Breakfast at the hotel

    • Depart for Lyme Regis

      • Jane Austen visited Lyme Regis on two known occasions, in 1803 and 1804, and it seems that she grew to love the place. Her last great novel, Persuasion, is set here.

    • Lyme Regis Museum

      • Lyme Regis Museum has a number of objects on display relating to Jane Austen and her times, including several that have come down through the Austen family and have kindly been lent to the museum.

    • Free time for lunch

    • Visit Montacute House

      • Montacute House is a late Elizabethan mansion. The house is almost unchanged from the Elizabethan era. Montacute House was also used in the 1995 film of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, standing in for Cleveland House, the country estate.

    • Return to Bath for dinner and evening at leisure

    • Breakfast at the hotel

      • Coach transfer from Bath to Bristol station. Train journey to Sheffield. Meet coach in Sheffield.

    • Free time for lunch in Sheffield

    • Visit Chatsworth

      • Magnificent statement home in the Derbyshire dales, home to the Devonshire family and has been passed down through 17 centuries. It is believed that Jane Austen may have based her idea of Pemberley on Chatsworth House and written the novel while in Bakewell. If you visit the house, you may recognize the grand staircase and ceiling of the Painted Hall where Lizzie and the Gardiners start their tour of Pemberley.

    • Dinner and evening at leisure.

    • Breakfast at the hotel

    • Visit Haddon Hall

      • Aside from its deeply important Medieval, Tudor and Elizabethan architectural heritage, Haddon Hall houses a remarkable tapestry collection; an early English furniture collection reputed to be the best of its kind in the country; and has a wonderful Elizabethan Walled Garden, recently redesigned by Arne Maynard. Screen credits also include Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

    • Free time for lunch

    • Visit Lyme Park

      • Nestling on the edge of the Peak District, LYme Park was once a great sporting estate and home of the Legh family for over 500 years. The house is renowned for its elegant interiors and beautiful gardens, against a backdrop of sweeping moorland with extensive views. The exterior of the hall was used as Pemberley, the seat of Mr. Darcy, in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.

    • Dinner and evening at leisure

    • Breakfast at the hotel

      • Travel back to London by train

      • Coach transfer from train station to London Heathrow Airport for travel home or wherever is next

What’s Included

  • Services included in the package price
    $3,000 per person in shared room/$3,650 for a single

    Accommodation (includes breakfast every day)

    • Voco Winchester - 2 nights

    • Hampton by Hilton Bath - 3 nights

    • Ibis Sheffield City - 2 nights

    Included transport

    • Coach and train

    Other services

    • On-Site Tour Director, Joan Weber

    • Experienced Tour Guide

    • Entrance fees to Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton House, Winchester Cathedral, Jane Austen Centre, Roman Baths and Pump Rooms, Holburne Museum, Lyme Regis Museum, Montacute House, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, Lyme Park

  • Founder and Tour Guide

    From childhood, Joan has dreamt of being a tour guide, especially around literature and literary figures. She earned her masters in Literature from Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English and has spent most of the past 10 summers traveling in England and Ireland as a teacher and an administrator. Her favorite thing has been to visit the places where writers lived and wrote like London, Chawton, Stratford, Haworth, Dublin. It’s not like she’s looking for ghosts, not really.

    Joan became a humanities and literature teacher in an independent school in Howard County Maryland after spending a decade as a theater artist and educator in Baltimore City.

    She is a nerd, a hardcore, to-her-soul nerd. Let’s tour.

Physical Requirements

There will be walking nearly every day of the tour, not generally more than 1 mile at a time over a period of 30-40 minutes. English towns and cities may be paved with cobblestones, creating uneven services. We will also be wandering across unpaved surfaces. Please let us know if you will need support and we will do our best to help.

Costings

$3,000 per person in a shared room; $3,650 for a single.