In 1820, a new parson was installed at Haworth parish church, in the centre of the moorland village just outside Keighley. His name was Patrick Bronte, and it was in this village that his daughters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne – wrote the extraordinary novels which made the name famous around the world. The church in which the family worshipped still stands – although only the tower is as they knew it, since the rest was rebuilt in 1880. All the Brontes except Anne are buried in the churchyard, which is now second only to Stratford-upon-Avon as England’s most popular place of literary pilgrimage.
