The rolling fields of east Hampshire are said to have helped the author pen some of her most famous novels, including Pride and Prejudice - but locals now fear they will soon be "concreted over"

Villagers are at war with their local council - over plans to bulldoze countryside that inspired Jane Austen .

The rolling fields of east Hampshire are said to have helped the author pen some of her most famous novels , including Pride and Prejudice. But locals now fear they will soon be "concreted over" to meet the Government's housing targets, after a council earmarked them as potential development sites for some 15,000 new homes.

Local Alex Perry, 55, said the proposals, which are yet to reach a formal stage, would "ruin" the area's rolling chalk downs, adding: "They are going to destro

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