One morning in Haworth I hopped on the Brontëbus to Keighly and from there to Saltaire by train. Saltaire is located near Bradford and is a Victorian model village, built in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist who wanted the workers of his woollen mills to be healthy and having good living quarters. Today […]
After walking in the footsteps of the Brontë sisters, sitting at “their” waterfall and bridge, it was about time to visit the Parsonage, their former home in Haworth. During the time the Brontë family lived at the Parsonage it was described as a black house, isolated on top of a hill over Haworth, next to […]
Top Withens – the rumoured inspiration for Brontës “Wuthering Heights”. Even so, that might not be true walking there is a wonderful circular walk through Brontë Country. I started at Haworth Main Street, passed the church and the parsonage and in the direction of the Lower Laithe reservoir, opened in 1925. Passing through Stanbury – […]