Trails, waterfalls and the Brontë Way

To find oneself as if by magic in the moors and atmospheres of the landscape that inspired Wuthering Heights, Emily's most important novel, one can wander along the dense network of paths in the Haworth countryside, which unfold right around the Brontë Parsonage Museum, including Top Withens (which many believe inspired Wuthering Heights), Ponden Kirk and the Brontë Waterfall. The most exciting in terms of nature is certainly the 69-kilometre Brontë Way, which starts at Oakwell Hall - it is called Fieldhead in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley - near Birstall in Kirklees, and ends at Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham, winding its way through places of great significance in the lives and literature of the three sisters. For example, we visit their birthplace in Thornton, Penistone Hill Park perched on the moors above Haworth, and the village of Birstall in Trawden Forest, on the edge of Pendle Witch Country.