A Visit to Brontë Country

An excellent half day walk in Brontë Country starting from Haworth and going over Penistone Hill to the Bronte Waterfalls from where I climbed "out on the wiley, windy moors" (to quote Kate Bush), up to Top Withins. I then followed the Pennine Way down past Upper Heights Farm to the village of Stanbury before returning over the dam at Low Laithe Reservoir and back across Penistone Hill to Howarth.


The village is synonymous with the Brontë sisters who were born in Thornton, on the outskirts of Bradford, but wrote most of their novels while living at the Haworth Parsonage (which is now a museum owned and maintained by the Brontë Society), when their father was the parson at the adjacent Church of St. Michael and All Angels.




The start by the parsonage







Top of Penistone Hill.






View down to Low Laithe Reservoir.







View across to Stanbury that I was to go through 4 miles later.







First view of the Brontë Bridge.








The plaque on the bridge.







The bridge.






Signpost to Top Withins (Note the sign is in both English and Japanese).







View across Howarth Moor.







Stile on the path leading to Top Withins.







Top Withins in view.






The sign on the building itself.








Top Withins.






Pennine Way Route.







Sheep crossing the moor.






Two other walkers out for the day.






Upper Heights Farm.






Sheep by the farm.






View down to Low Laithe Reservoir.






Christmas Dinner??






St Gabriel's Church at Stanbury.






A welcome pint of Theakstone's at the Wuthering Heights Pub in Stanbury.






Low Laithe Reservoir.
















Back up to Penistone Hill.









St. Michael's Church, Haworth.












The Brontë Parsonage Museum.