Ashe rectory
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Ashe rectory is an sixteenth century structure, built to house a clergyman and his family.[1][2] It is located near Overton, Hampshire and is remembered as the home of the Lefroy family, who were friends of the Jane Austen's family. Jane Austen's home, the Steventon rectory, has subsequently been demolished, but was comparable in size to Ashe rectory. The familyies' homes were nearby, and Jane is known to have walked there, for visits with her friends.
A clergyman's living routinely came with housing, and a glebe - farmland for his use.
References
- ↑ "Parishes: Ashe - A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4.". British History Online. 1911. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20220528064204/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp198-202. Retrieved 2022-12-22. mirror
- ↑ Anthony Trollope (1987). "A Scotchman at Overton: Jane Austen’s North Hampshire". Jane Austen Society of North America. Archived from the original on 2022-08-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20220812111320/https://jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number9/trollope.htm. Retrieved 2022-12-22. "As we go on our way I would also invite you to turn aside to Ashe Park, and eventually Ashe Rectory, now Ashe House, the splendid Georgian mansion at which we have dined many times, and where in Jane’s day Madame Lefroy lived. Here Jane met Tom, Madame Lefroy’s Irish nephew, whom she found “very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant,” and earned some reproof from her sister, Cassandra, for repeated flirting at a ball. Jane would recognize the interior of Ashe House, whose eighteenth-century character has been most lovingly kept."
