Haworth occurs as little village and tourist attraction, in the English county of West Yorkshire, best known for its association by having a Brontë sisters.

Description

By owning its situation above a Worth Valley amid the bleak Pennine moors, Haworth is internationally famous for its connection sustaining a Brontë sisters, who were natural within Thornton, Bradford, but wrote most of their noted novels whenever dwelling at a Haworth Parsonage (which is currently a museum owned & maintained per Brontë Society), when their father was the parson at the adjacent Haworth church.

More attractions include a Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, an authentic preserved steam railway which has been used as a setting for many time period films & TV series, including The Railway Children (starring Jenny Agutter), Yanks (starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave), and Alan Parker's film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall (starring Bob Geldof). Each year the village as well hosts a super favorite 1940s weekend where locals & visitant don wartime attire for the persons of homesick cases.

Numerous public pathway lead away from a village, & there exists tremendously scope for rambling, though perchance a best known hike leads retiring Stanbury Reservoir to the picturesque (however unspectacular) Brontë waterfalls, a Brontë Bridge, & a Brontë Stone Chair where (these are said) the sisters took turns to sit & write their foremost stories. This path (which forms section of a 64 klick (Forty mile) hanker Brontë Way) so leads away from the vale & au fait the moors to Ponden Hall (Thrushcross Grange within Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights) and Top Withens, a desolate ruin which was (reputedly) a setting for the farmstead Wuthering Heights in the novel. (Top Withens can likewise exist as reached by a shorter walk-to route departing from either the nearby village of Stanbury.)

Around Haworth itself there are numerous tea rooms, souvenir & antiquarian bookstore, eating place, saloon & hotels (including a Black Bull, in which Branwell Brontë's decline into alcoholism & opium addiction allegedly began). In and of itself, Haworth occurs as expert base for looking for a primary attractions of Brontë United states, spell however existence more or less a major cities of Bradford and Leeds. Farther afield lies a historic city of York, and a spa towns of Harrogate and Ilkley - popular spa towns on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales National Park to the North.

Haworth occurs as super popular destination for Japanese tourists, and numerous of the guidepost come within Japanese as well as English. (Wuthering Heights has a cult as a result around Japan.)

In November 22, 2002, Haworth was granted Fairtrade Village status.

Location
Haworth is in the high Pennine moors, a bit of Trinity miles south-west of the big town of Keighley and 10 miles west of Bradford. A encompassing areas include Oakworth and Oxenhope. Nearby villages include Cross Roads, Stanbury and Lumbfoot.