Alton is in Hampshire.

Get in

Just off the A 31 between Farnham and Winchester.

Watercress Line, a preserved railway which runs from Alresford to Alton.

The station provides via Brookwood connections from London Waterloo.

See

• 1 Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton, ☏ +44 1420 83262. 

Do

• Watercress Line (Mid Hants Railway). Steam locomotives and vintage diesel trains links Alton's National Rail station to Alresford. A fantastic way to travel through the Hampshire countryside 

Eat

• 1 The George, Butts Rd, ☏ +44 1420 82331. 

Sleep

• 1 Alton House Hotel, 57 Normandy St, ☏ +44 1420 80033. 
• 2 Swan Hotel, High St, ☏ +44 1420 83777. 

Go next

• Alresford
• Basingstoke