Haworth History Tour

Author/Guide: Steven Wood and Ian Palmer

Why a Booktrail?

1816 – 1861: Discover Bronte Country, home of the famous literary sisters

ISBN: 978-1445646275
Genre: Guide book, Historical

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What you need to know before your trail

Haworth is a picturesque Pennine village that is now famed for the Brontë family and the steam railway. Behind the tourist village of today lies a long history of people making a living from the uncompromising moorland of this area. Haworth History Tour takes the reader on a journey through the many changes the village has undergone in its long history. While some areas will seem relatively unchanged, many are now unrecognisable. The curious and nostalgic alike will delight in uncovering or rediscovering the roots of Haworth with the help of this wonderfully illustrated guide.

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Travel BookTrail style to Bronte Country

This book transports you to and explores the setting of some of the most famous books in the English language.

Sisters Emily, Anne and Charlotte are the most famous literary sisters in history having written Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre to name but three.

This book explores Haworth and the landscape surrounding it at the time the sisters and the father lived (1816 – 1861)

The Brontë parsonage first opened in 1895 above the Yorkshire Penny Bank on Haworth Main Street. The Bronte Society which had been set up to continue and preserve the family legacy began to purchase items at auction, which were either owned or had something to do with the Brontes.

In 1928, Haworth Parsonage was put up for sale for around £3000, by Sir James Roberts, a Haworth-born wool merchant and lifetime member of the Brontë Society member. He gave the deeds to the Brontë Society and history was born.