"A real gem, at any time of the year,

Haworth has so much to offer: the second hand book shops, the Apothecary, the antique shops - we can spend the best part of an afternoon mooching around! We always finish our visit to Haworth with a real treat: a lovely coffee and cake at 10 The Coffee House.

Claire, the owner, always offers a warm welcome, and her fresh, home made cakes are out of this world!
K Solomon, Harrogate

Haworth is a hilltop village not far from Bradford in the heart of West Yorkshire's Bronte Country.

Situated above the Worth Valley amid the Pennine moors, Haworth is internationally famous for its connection with the Bronte sisters, who were born in Thornton (near Bradford), but who wrote most of their famous works while living at the Haworth Parsonage (which is now a museum owned and maintained by the Bronte Society), while their father was parson at the adjacent Haworth church.

Other attractions include the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, an authentic preserved steam railway which has been used as a setting for numerous period films and TV series, including The Railway Children (starring Jenny Agutter), Yanks (starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave), and Alan Parker's film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall (starring Bob Geldof).

Every year the village also hosts a very special 1940s weekend where locals and visitors alike don wartime attire for a host of nostalgic events.

Further afield lies the historic city of York, and the spa towns of Harrogate and Ilkley - popular towns on the edge of the very beautiful Yorkshire Dales National Park to the north.

Find out more about Haworth here .