The more than four hundred year old Shawton House will take you on a journey into the life of the famous novelist Jane Austen, and it is the mansion in which she had the happiest times of her brother Edward, and is a short walk from the cottage where she lived, and visitors will be pleased to see The table where she dined with her family, along with photographs and legacies of the Austen family, and they can explore the walled garden mentioned in the writer's letters and the royal-style shrubs.