Entries for the tag ‘Haworth’
📌 Village 10 miles west of Bradford, known for the Brontës and the Keighley and Worth Valley heritage railway. 
- 28 March 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing
- 2 May 1844: The Bradford Observer reports a 10% increase in two years in the borough’s population
- 15 December 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells Ellen Nussey of cold, boredom and debts at Haworth
- 27 May 1849: Scarborough on the last evening of Anne Brontë’s life, as told by Ellen Nussey
- 26 July 1858: Walter White samples the nascent Brontë tourist industry at Haworth, but declines to buy photographs or visit the father
- 27 April 1924: In a letter to Edmund Gosse, Clifford Allbutt recalls the Brontës
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