Alton Abbey, Alton

Name: Alton Abbey
Address: Abbey Road, Alton, GU34 4AP, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1420 562145

#7 among attractions in Alton

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Alton Abbey is an Anglican Benedictine monastery in the village of Beech, near Alton, Hampshire, England. The abbey is not far from one of Hampshire's highest points, King's Hill. The community was founded by the Revd Charles Plomer Hopkins in 1884, as the Society of Saint Paul, in Rangoon and Calcutta to work with destitute or distressed merchant seafarers and their chaplains. The first house was opened in 1894 in Barry Dock, South Wales to continue this work. ()

Coordinates: 51°8'5"N, 1°2'7"W

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Abbey RoadAlton GU34 4AP United Kingdom

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+44 1420 562145

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Day trips

Alton Abbey – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Jane Austen's House Museum, Church of St Lawrence, Alton Town Hall, Hangers Way.

2 miE
The famed writer's 17th-century home
Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton
52 min walk • Jane Austen's House Museum is a small independent museum in the village of Chawton near Alton in Hampshire. It is a writer's house museum occupying the 17th-century house in which novelist Jane Austen spent the last eight years of her life.
2.8 miNE
Church, Romanesque architecture, Gothic architecture
Church of St Lawrence, Alton
72 min walk • The Church of St Lawrence, Alton is an Anglican parish church in Alton, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building and is notable both for the range of its architecture and for being the site of the concluding action of the Battle of Alton during the English Civil War.
2.7 miE
City hall
Alton Town Hall, Alton
69 min walk • Alton Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square in Alton, Hampshire, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Alton Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.2 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Hangers Way, Alton
82 min walk • Hangers Way is a 21-mile-long-distance footpath through Hampshire, England from Alton railway station to Queen Elizabeth Country Park where it meets the South Downs Way National Trail.
2.9 miE
Specialty museum, History museum, Museum
Curtis Museum, Alton
74 min walk • The Curtis Museum in Alton, is a local history museum in Hampshire, England. The museum was founded in 1865 by Dr William Curtis.
2.5 miS
Hiking, Hiking trail
St Swithun's Way
64 min walk • St Swithun's Way is a 34-mile long-distance footpath in England from Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire to Farnham, Surrey. It is named after Swithun, a 9th-century Bishop of Winchester, and roughly follows the Winchester to Farnham stretch of the Pilgrims' Way.
2.1 miE
Jane Austen, Historical place, Garden
Chawton House Library, Chawton
54 min walk • Chawton House is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Hampshire. It is run as a historic property and also houses the research library of The Centre for the Study of Early Women's Writing, 1600–1830, using the building's connection with the English novelist Jane Austen.
4.3 miE
Church
St Leonard's Church, South Downs National Park
109 min walk • St Leonard's Church is a Church of England parish church in the hamlet of Hartley Mauditt, East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.
4.7 miSE
Church, Gothic architecture, Romanesque architecture
Church of St Peter ad Vincula, South Downs National Park
121 min walk • The Church of St Peter ad Vincula is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Colemore, Hampshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.5 miE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
All Saints' Church, Alton
64 min walk • All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in Alton, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building by English Heritage.
2.1 miE
Jane Austen, History museum, Museum
Chawton House, Chawton
54 min walk • Chawton House is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Hampshire. It is run as a historic property and also houses the research library of The Centre for the Study of Early Women's Writing, 1600–1830, using the building's connection with the English novelist Jane Austen.