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Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 1 G u i e d o t R u r l a E n l g n a d W E S T Y O R K S H R I E A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 2 G LOCATOR MAP u i e d Addingham Long t Marston o Earby Ilkley Wetherby R Otley Collingham u r Tadcaster l a Guiseley Bramhope E Thorner Bramham n Keighley g Colne Yeadon Towton l n a Haworth Wilsden d Shipley Aberford Sherburn in Elmet Pudsey LEEDS W BRADFORD Garforth E Queensbury S Hebden T Bridge Morley Y Halifax Castleford O Todmorden Batley Knottingley R Cragg Dewsbury K Vale Mirfield Normanton S Ripponden Pontefract H Ossett Wakefield I Littleborough Wentbridge R Horbury E Huddersfield Walton Milnrow Flockton Marsden Royston Hemsworth Honley Kirkburton South Kirby Shaw Meltham Holmfirth Cudworth Denby Dale Barnsley Oldham Dodworth Thurnscoe Penistone Towns and Villages Aberford pg2 4 Haworth pg4 Oxenhope pg6 Addingham pg1 7 Hebden Bridge pg7 Pontefract pg2 4 Ben Rhydding pg1 6 Heptonstall pg8 Ripponden pg1 3 Birstall pg2 5 Hepworth pg3 2 Saltaire pg1 9 BostonS pa pg2 3 Holmbridge pg3 1 Scapegoat Hill pg3 0 Bradford pg1 7 Holmfirth pg3 1 Shipley pg1 9 Bramham pg2 3 Honley pg31 Sowerby Bridge pg 12 Brontë Country pg4 Huddersfield pg2 9 Stanbury pg6 Burley in Wharfedale pg 16 Ilkley pg13 Thongsbridge pg3 1 Cathedral pg1 8 Leeds pg20 Thornton pg1 3 ClaytonW est pg3 3 Meltham pg3 1 Todmorden pg8 DenbyD ale pg3 3 Mytholmroyd pg8 Wakefield pg2 6 Dewsbury pg2 6 Normanton pg2 9 Wetherby pg2 4 FarnleyT yas pg3 2 Oakworth pg6 Wintersett pg2 8 Halifax pg9 Otley pg16 Woolley pg2 9 Harewood pg2 2 A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 3 G West Yorkshire u i e d o t R u West Yorkshire, while having the scenery of themselves and also contributed to the r l a the Pennines, is still dominated by the effects construction of the marvellous array of E of the Industrial Revolution that turned this opulent civic buildings that are such a feature n l g region into one of the world’s great wool of West Yorkshire towns. Today, however, n a d manufacturing areas. The land had been many of the mills that have remained redundant for decades are being put to other W farmed, mainly with sheep, since the Middle E Ages and, in order to supplement their wages, uses, while places such as Bradford, Leeds, S T the cottagers took to hand loom weaving in a Huddersfield and Wakefield are finding new Y room of their home. However, the advances industries to take the place of the old. There is O R in technology, beginning in the 18th century, a wealth of interesting museums here that K concentrate on the wool industry, but there are S replaced the single man-powered looms with H water-powered machinery that was housed in also others such as the National Museum of R I the large mill buildings in the valley bottom Photography, Film and Television in Bradford E close to the source of power – the fast that look towards the future. Coal mining, too, flowing streams and rivers coming down from was a feature of West Yorkshire, and the the surroundings hills and moors. National Coal Mining Museum, near During the 19th century there was an Wakefield, provides visitors with the explosion of building and the quiet riverside opportunity to go down a real mine shaft. villages grew into towns and the South Pennine However, despite there being several grand textile boom was in full flow. At first the stately homes in the area, such as Temple conditions in the mills were grim, as were the Newsam near Leeds, East Riddlesden Hall living conditions for the mill workers, but, with near Bradford and Harewood House, the the reduction in the hours of the working day, foremost residence that most people make a people were able to take the opportunity to pilgrimage to in West Yorkshire is The discover, and in some cases rediscover, the Parsonage at Howarth. It was to here that the beauty of the surrounding moorland. Not all Brontë family moved in 1820 and, surrounded the villages were completely taken over by the by the wild Pennine landscape, the three mills and, in many, the old stone built weavers sisters, Charlotte, Anne and Emily, became cottages, with their deep windows to let in light inspired by their surroundings and wrote some for the worker within, survive. of the most famous novels in the English Although the Yorkshire woollen textile language. Now a museum dedicated to the industry is now almost a thing of the past, the tragic sisters, this fine Georgian house is a heritage of those prosperous days can be seen starting point for a 40-mile footpath that takes in almost any town or village of the region. in many of the places that feature in the The wealthy mill owners built grand villas for Brontë novels. A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 4 Brontë Country then, was the landscape of the area to which G the Brontë family moved in 1820 when their u d i This area of West Yorkshire, surrounding the father, Patrick, took up the position of rector e o t Brontë family home at Haworth, is dominated of Haworth. Within five years, both Maria R Brontë (the mother) and two of the five girls u by the textile towns and villages along the r died; the unhealthy climate having begun to l a valley bottom and the wild and bleak E take its toll. Though all the remaining children n moorland above. The land has been farmed, g did receive an education, it was in a somewhat l mainly with sheep, since the Middle Ages. In n a d order to supplement their wages, the cottagers haphazard way and they spent much of their took to hand loom weaving in a room of their time with each other isolated at the parsonage. W E home. The advances in technology, beginning After various attempts at working, generally as S teachers, the girls, and their brother Branwell, T in the 18th century, replaced the single man- Y powered looms with water-powered machinery all returned to the parsonage in the mid-1840s O and this is when their writing began in earnest. R that were housed in the large mill buildings in K the valley bottom close to the source of Their father, who was born in 1777 and S ordained in 1807, died in 1861 at the age of H power. I 84, having outlived every one of his children. R During the 19th century there was an E explosion of building and the quiet riverside villages grew into towns; the South Pennine Haworth textile boom was in full flow. At first the conditions in the mills were grim, as were the B Brontë Parsonage Museum living conditions for the mill workers, but, with B Keighley & Worth Valley Railway the reduction in the hours of the working day, D Top Withins J Brontë Way people were able to take the opportunity to discover, and in some cases rediscover, the Once a bleak moorland town in a dramatic beauty of the surrounding moorland. setting that fired the romantic imaginations of the Brontë sisters, Haworth has been Not all the villages were completely taken transformed into a lively, attractive place with over by the mills. In many, the old stone-built wonderful tea houses, street theatre, and weavers cottages, with their deep windows to antique and craft shops, very different to how let in light for the worker within, survive. This, it must have been in the Brontë’s days. It was then a thriving industrial town, squalid amidst the smoke from its chimneys, filled with the noise of the clattering looms, which were rarely still. It is worth exploring the ginnels and back roads off the steeply rising high street to get a feeling of what the place was like in the days of the Brontës. The Parsonage, built in 1777, is the focus of most Brontë pilgrimages and is now given over to the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The Brontë Parsonage, Haworth Brontë Society has restored the interior to A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 5 resemble as closely as possible the house in deaths were all too common in the 19th G which the sisters lived with their father and century and graphically illustrate the u d i brother.

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