'''Bronte Country''' [http://www.visitbrontecountry.com/] (also spelled '''Bronte Country''') is a compact literature-inspired region of moorland and villages in West Yorkshire, the area in which the three Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Anne and Emily - grew up and from which they drew much of their inspiration. The appeal of the area is more than literary, however....

Understand

Cities

  • Haworth - site of the Parsonage in which the Bronte Sisters grew up, lived and wrote
  • Keighley - the largest town within the region
  • Oakworth
  • Oxenhope
  • Thornton - 4 miles west of Bradford, birthplace of the Bronte Sisters
  • Get in

    Travellers to Bronte Country are best-advised to arrive first at Keighley, via Bradford

    See

  • the '''Keighley and Worth Valley Railway''' [http://www.kwvr.co.uk/] - this restored 5-mile stretch of branch line links Keighley with the villages of Ingrow, Damems, Oakworth, Haworth and Oxenhope.
  • Do

  • take a '''Railway Journey''' on the '''Keighley and Worth Valley Railway''' [http://www.kwvr.co.uk/]
  • take a moorland walk or ride, perhaps up to the site that inspired ''Wuthering Heights''