Pictures:
Top - Haworth village. Middle - Bronte Birthplace, Thornton near Bradford. Bottom - Bronte Parsonage, Haworth.
Bronte Country in the gritstone Pennines
When a young man arrived with his family to become 'perpetual curate' at St Michael's Church in Haworth (66M), the family was unknown. But it was the landscape of the gritstone Pennine moors that was to be the inspiration for many of the books by his daughters, the Bronte sisters.
The parents were of Cornish and Irish descent, but Patrick eventually came to Yorkshire and took the parish of St Peter, Hartshead (57.5M), not far from Brighouse, where he met Maria Branwell and they married and gave birth to two children, Maria and Elizabeth.
In 1813 Patrick moved on to the church at Thornton (61.5M) near Bradford, where Maria gave birth to four more children - Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne Bronte. The small cottage where they lived is now open to visitors.
Only a month after the birth of Anne, they moved to what later became the parsonage in Haworth (now the Bronte visitor centre). His wife died within a year, though Patrick remained there for more than four decades.
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