Top Withens, Haworth

Situated on the moors between Haworth and Walshaw, this farmhouse has been associated with Emily Bronte’s novel "Wuthering Heights". The buildings, even when complete, bore no resemblance to the house she described, but the situation may have been in her mind when she wrote of the moorland setting. The barn is on the left of the picture, and the peat house on the right. The roof has now disappeared and the gable is destroyed down to the level of the peat doorway. The ruin lies on the Pennine Way east of Withens Height and below Delf Hill.