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ALRESFORD , six miles east of Winchester, is the departure-point for the Mid-Hants Watercress Line (March, April & Oct Sat & Sun; May-Sept & school holidays daily; tel 01962/733810, ; GBP9), a jolly, steam-powered train, so named because it passes through the former watercress beds which once flourished here. The train chuffs ten miles to Alton, with gourmet dinners served on board on Saturday evenings and traditional Sunday lunches. A mile southwest of Alton, lies the village of CHAWTON , where Jane Austen lived from 1809 to 1817, during the last and most prolific years of her life, and where she wrote or revised almost all her six books, including Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice . Jane Austen's House (Jan & Feb Sat & Sun 11am-4.30pm; rest of year daily 11am-4.30pm; GBP3), in the centre of the village, is a plain red-brick building, containing first editions of some of her greatest works.
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