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Haworth, a village in West Yorkshire, England, and the home of the Brontë sisters. It was at Haworth, during the first half of the 19th century, that Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, Anne wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and, most famously, Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, the story of the doomed love of Cathy and Heathcliff.

Moorland village in West Yorkshire, England, 5 km/3 mi south of Keighley; population (2001 est) 5,000. The writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë lived at the parsonage here from their earliest years. The old church of Haworth has been restored, and contains the graves of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. The parsonage is now the Brontë museum.

Vivid descriptions of the local moorland scenery are to be found in their novels, notably Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë.
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