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Bronte Way |
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Description |
 Follow the Bronte Way through Lancashire and Yorkshire and visit many of the places associated with writings and lives of the Bronte Sisters.
Highlights on the walk include:
Gawthorpe Hall - visited by Charlotte Bronte on several occasions, Gawthorpe Hall is the start point of the walk
Wycoller Country Park - Wycoller Hall is believed to have inspired Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre".
Top Withens - the inspiration for the location of Wuthering Heights
Ponden Hall - situated near the village of Stanbury it inspired Thrushcross grange in Wuthering Heights.
Haworth - this Yorkshire village is where the Bronte sisters wrote many of their works and includes the Haworth Parsonage Museum
Thronton - birthplace of the Brontes
Oakwell Hall - inspiration for 'Fieldhead' in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley and also the end point of the route
As well as the interesting places above the walk also passes some beautiful scenery including Ponden and Leeming Reservoirs, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and Penistone country park.
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Distance | 44 miles (71 km) |
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Memory Map Route | Bronte Way.mmo (right click - 'Save As') |
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GPX File | Bronte Way.gpx (right click - 'Save As')
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Route Photos |  |  |  |  | Gawthorpe Hall | Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Burnley | Above Trawden looking toward Yorkshire | Ponden Reservoir |  |  |  |  | Stanbury from Penistone Country Park | Leeming Reservoir | Red House Gomersal | Oakwell Hall Country Park |
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Map (Route in Red)
Aerial Photo View of this route
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