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Famous Figures

Broadlands stands in spacious parkland near Romsey, with the fine trout and salmon waters of the River Test flowing through the estate. The grounds owe a debt to Viscount Palmerston, who invited famous 18th century landscape designer 'Capability' Brown to create one of his greatest masterpieces there. Broadlands was also home to The Late Lord Louis Mountbatten, who received the title of Earl Mountbatten of Burma for services in the war.

Stratfield Saye House, on the Hampshire/ Berkshire borders, was home to the Great Duke of Wellington, and houses an exhibition of his military and political life. The Wellington Statue, showing the first Duke and his charger Copenhagen, can also been seen in Aldershot.

Jane Austen is one of Hampshire's most famous residents and as well as the Jane Austen's House Museum at Chawton. Jane is also associated with the village of Steventon near Basingstoke, where she was born in 1775, and The Vyne, now a National Trust property, where she is said to have attended dances.