IT'S the former home of one of the most famous little girls in English literature.

Weston's near Lyndhurst was the home of Alice Hargreaves who years before had been Alice Liddell - the child who inspired Lewis Carroll to write his beloved Alice in Wonderland books.

Now, the late Edwardian country house in the tiny hamlet of Bank where Alice spent her adult life is up for sale - for a cool £2m. Alice Liddell was born in Westminster in 1852 and first met Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll's real name) at Oxford when she was still a little girl.

She was the inspiration behind Dodgson's Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass books which were written while he was a professor of mathematics at the university.

Alice eventually grew up and married Reginald Hargreaves and settled in Hampshire. She died in 1934 aged 82.

Before her death, Alice was invited to visit the United States of America to receive a degree from Columbia University.

The visit aroused intense press interest but on her return to England Alice confessed to her son Caryl in a letter that she was "tired of Wonderland."

Her former home today has seven bedrooms and three en-suite bathrooms.

It even has space in its outbuildings for storing classic cars. But Alice's is not the only famous name linked to the property. It was also occupied by the sisters of the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who took the United Kingdom to war with Hitler's Germany in 1939. Unusually, the two sisters were also leading figures in the then influential British Goat Society.