Raise anyone what Haworth is legendary for and that they can inevitably reply "the Brontes." The village of Haworth is understood the world over as former home of the Bronte family and has been drawing tourists to its narrow, cobbled streets for well over a century.
The three Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - moved to its windswept hilltop parsonage as very young kids with their brother Branwell from nearby Thornton after the death of their mother and two female siblings. It was whilst living at The Parsonage in Haworth that the sisters wrote their famous literary classics.
Their father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte, was vicar of St Michael and All Angels, just a stone's throw from The Parsonage, across the church yard, with its tall swaying trees and also the ever-gift caw of rooks. The family were regular worshippers at St Michael's and, except for Anne (who is buried high on a hill in a very Scarborough church yard) they're buried in its crypt.
Nowadays, their former home attracts guests like a magnet. For many, it is a place of pilgrimage, with literary enthusiasts arriving from everywhere the planet, cameras at the ready, to catch their 1st view of the Bronte Parsonage Museum. The house continues to be terribly abundant as it would have been during the Brontes time, when the sisters were busy writing such classics as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, drawing inspiration from the encircling moorland.
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Heading aloof from the Bronte Parsonage Museum, guests will take in The Black Bull, where Branwell Bronte spent many an intoxicated hour - his chair is still there - indulging in his fondness for ale. Plus The Black Bull, there are several more public houses in Haworth to choose from and guests actually haven't any shortage of cafes, tea rooms and gift shops as they make their manner down the steep, cobbled Main Street, past the delightful park and on right down to the little railway station.
Haworth's station sits on the Keighley & Value Valley Railway. Trains on this wonderful preserved steam railway run from nearby Keighley, through Haworth and on to Oxenhope, where a timeless classic, The Railway Youngsters, was filmed.
No matter what time of year, Haworth never fails to disappoint its many guests, whether it's in Spring when the churchyard rooks are at their busiest and people throng for the 1940s weekend, or within the short November days when villagers, currently wearing Victorian costume, prepare to 'Scroggle the Holly' and therefore the steep Main Street quietly twinkles with little Christmas trees.
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