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Of English literary shrines, probably only Stratford sees more visitors than the quarter of a million who swarm annually into the village of HAWORTH to tramp the cobbles once trodden by the Brontë sisters. During the summer the village's steep, cobbled Main Street is lost under huge crowds, herded by multilingual signs around the various stations on the Brontë trail. Of these, the BrontëParsonageMuseum is the obvious focus. The parish church in front of the parsonage contains the family vault; Charlotte was married here in 1854.

The most popular local walk runs to Brontë Falls and Bridge, and to Top Withens, a ruin fancifully (but erroneously) thought to be the model for Wuthering Heights (allow 3hr for the round trip). The moorland setting, however, beautifully evokes the flavour of the book, and to enjoy it further you could walk on another two and a half miles to Ponden Hall, perhaps the Thrushcross Grange of Wuthering Heights.