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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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David Barnett

Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale

The Brontës’ birthplace in Thornton, near Bradford.
The Brontës’ birthplace in Thornton, near Bradford. Photograph: Jack Peters

Around a million visitors a year beat a path to Haworth, the small West Yorkshire town nestling in the windy moors of the Worth Valley – mainly to see the home of the Brontë sisters.

The house that writers Charlotte, Anne and Emily shared with their father, church minister Patrick, and their wayward brother, Branwell, is a major tourist attraction. Visitors wander around the parsonage and surrounding cobbled streets to soak up the atmosphere of just how the Brontës lived two centuries ago.

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