Charlotte, Emily and Anne walked these same lanes. Here's our guide to literary Haworth — starting two minutes from our front door on Butt Lane.
Haworth is world-famous for one extraordinary family. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë wrote Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the parsonage at the top of Main Street — a five-minute walk from the Village Hall's front door on Butt Lane.
The essential route
- Start at the Village Hall (there's tea and, on event days, cake).
- Climb Main Street's cobbles, past the apothecary where Branwell Brontë bought his laudanum.
- The Brontë Parsonage Museum — the family home, kept beautifully by the Brontë Society.
- St Michael and All Angels' Church, where Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854.
- Out onto the moors — follow the signs for the Brontë Waterfall and, for the determined, Top Withens, the ruined farmhouse often linked with Wuthering Heights.
Why this matters to the hall
Our building opened in the 1890s, within living memory of the sisters. The same weather that howls through Wuthering Heights still rattles our windows — which is exactly why a warm, affordable meeting place matters in a moortop village.
Visiting for a literary weekend? Check our events — there's usually music, a play café or a brass band concert to round off a day on the moors.