[Illustration:  PLAN OF WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL]

Literature, too, has worthy names here in Izaak Walton and Jane Austen, both of whom lie buried in the cathedral; while the house at Winchester in which the author of Persuasion lived, for a brief period before her death, stands beyond the college gate.  Above the door is a wooden tablet recording that here Jane Austen spent her last days, dying July 18, 1817.  She had previously resided at Chawton for some eight years, but her house in the village is now a Workmen’s Club.  At the same time, Chawton is a pretty little spot, watered by land springs, known locally as “lavants”; while some few miles away is Farrington, where Gilbert White, of “Selborne” fame, was curate.

Other literary associations of the Winchester country are those furnished by Hursley, where John Keble was vicar; by Otterbourne, the home for many years of Charlotte Yonge; and by Eversley, where Winchester’s immortal son, Charles Kingsley, lies buried.

Each succeeding visit to Winchester can only strengthen one’s love for the city, and one’s reverence for the Cathedral in its midst.  Our pilgrimage of Winchester the beautiful is over.

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