A TELEVISION presenter visited the site of Jane Austen’s birth for a BBC2 documentary about the author’s life.

Lucy Worsley, who has presented programmes including The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain and If Walls Could Talk, was filming at Steventon rectory on August 3, where Jane was born in December 1775.

The rectory is no longer present after it was flooded during Jane’s lifetime, resulting in the whole village being forced to move to a drier location.

But an excavation in November 2011 revealed its foundations and the drainage system that failed in 1819, which will feature on the BBC2 documentary.

Lucy interviewed Debbie Charlton, who carried out the excavation, and she identified the exact spot where the house lay before sharing some of the finds she had made during the dig.

The presenter was particularly interested in a little broken eggcup from the time, while a separate team flew a drone over the fields to show the relationship between the rectory site and the church on the hill.

The team had previously visited Deane House, where Jane is believed to have fallen in love with Tom Lefroy at a ball, and Ashe House, the rectory where Tom’s aunt and Jane’s mentor, Madame Lefroy, lived.

Although Jane spent most of her life in Steventon, the BBC film crew also followed her footsteps to Lyme Regis, Stoneleigh, Kent, Bath and Chawton, and is due to finish filming in Winchester, where Jane died aged 41.

The BBC2 documentary will focus on the Pride and Prejudice author’s life, ready for the bicentenary of her death next yearJuly 2017.