The vicarage where Jane and Cassandra Austen stayed while visiting the Rev Thomas Fowle and family. Son Tom Fowle was a former student of their father, and later Cassandra became engaged to him. The marriage never took place as Tom died while away overseas in the Navy. Tom was a cousin to the Earl of Craven who lived a few miles to the east at Hampstead Marshall. Jane last visited here in 1816 a year before she died at Winchester.

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