The Brontë Parsonage
The Parsonage in the 1850s
In 1820, the Reverend Patrick Brontë took up a position in the hilltop village of Haworth, West Yorkshire
The Georgian parsonage overlooked the graveyard and small church, with open moorland to the rear.
Within a year Patrick’s wife, Maria, had died. Within a further four years, two of the eldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, had also died.
Maria’s sister, Elizabeth Branwell, left Cornwall and spent the rest of her life helping to raise the surviving family. In the same year a local maid, Tabitha Ackroyd, came to work at the parsonage and served the family for thirty years.
The House and the surrounding moors became the stage upon which Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë would play out their brief lives and imaginations.
All of the Brontë novels were written there.
The Georgian parsonage overlooked the graveyard and small church, with open moorland to the rear.
Within a year Patrick’s wife, Maria, had died. Within a further four years, two of the eldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, had also died.
Maria’s sister, Elizabeth Branwell, left Cornwall and spent the rest of her life helping to raise the surviving family. In the same year a local maid, Tabitha Ackroyd, came to work at the parsonage and served the family for thirty years.
The House and the surrounding moors became the stage upon which Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë would play out their brief lives and imaginations.
All of the Brontë novels were written there.
The Parsonage today
(The extension was built after the death of Rev. Patrick Brontë)