Brontë Country
Brontë Country includes locations associated with the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Anne and Emily. They're centred on the small town of Haworth in West Yorkshire, but cover a broad stretch of country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Area
- Description: area mainly in the Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire
- Also known as: “Bronte Country”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brontë Parsonage Museum and Haworth railway station.
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Museum
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The Brontë Parsonage Museum is a writer's house museum maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.
Haworth railway station
Railway station
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Haworth railway station serves the village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, England.
Oakworth railway station
Railway station
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oakworth railway station serves the village of Oakworth, near Keighley, and within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haworth and Oxenhope.
Haworth
Photo: Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0.
Haworth is a village of 6,700 people in the county of West Yorkshire in the north of England, about 7.5 km away from Bradford. It's famous as the place where the Brontë sisters grew up and wrote their novels, and all too soon died.
Oxenhope
Village
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Oxenhope is a village and civil parish near Keighley in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Cross Roads
Village
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cross Roads or Cross Roads with Lees or Cross Roads cum Lees is a village and civil parish within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England.
Brontë Country
- Category: region
- Location: Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury, Bradford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Russian—“Brontë Country” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ব্রন্টে কান্ট্রি”
- Portuguese: “Brontë Country”
- Russian: “Графство Бронте”
- Russian: “Страна Бронте”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Haworth Brow and Marsh Top.
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