England: Cornwall Devon Somerset Dorset Hampshire Wiltshire Berkshire Surrey Sussex Cotswolds Peak District Pennines Lake District Brontė Country Yorkshire Dales North York Moors Durham Northumberland Gallery Two Wales: North Wales Mid Wales South Wales Gallery Two Brontė Country can loosely be defined as the area containing the majestic landscapes and quiet Yorkshire villages which inspired the talented Brontė family. The windswept Brontė Moors and stone and slate hillside villages were known and loved by Emily, Anne, Charlotte, Branwell and Patrick. They were the basis, together with the people they met, for the settings and characters of the sombre novels, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Jane Eyre’. Haworth was associated with the Brontė’s sad life for forty-one years, from 1820 when the family arrived, until the death of their father, Patrick Brontė, the Parson, in 1861. Wycoller Hall, Ponden Hall and Top Withens, are all within walking distance of Haworth, across the wuthering (locally meaning “stormy”) moors. To a visitor, the Brontė story can seem very recent and on a gloomy day, with tourists gone, their presence can be strongly felt.	Photographs of Brontė Country Page 1 | Page 2 Return to top	Top Withens, Haworth Moor Set high on the windswept heather covered Yorkshire moorlands, the ruins of Top Withens both inspire and depress. Believed by many to be the setting for Emily Brontė’s ‘Wuthering Heights’, the abandoned farm evokes the atmosphere of the Brontė sisters’ novels. Here, a mere three miles from the hill-top village of Haworth, sombre isolation can be found in these wild, brooding moorlands. The Brontė sisters loved to roam these beautiful moors. Charlotte wrote of her sister, Emily, ‘They were far more to her than a mere spectacle; they were what she lived in and by . She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best loved was – liberty.’

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