VISIT TO HAWORTH
The annual English Literature visit to ‘Brontë Country’ in West Yorkshire took place on November 3rd; 35 year 12 students and 4 members of the English Department had an early start in mist and ice to travel to Stanbury, West Yorkshire.
Our bus driver left us beside the Haworth Moor and we set off into the wilderness, walking five miles to visit first the ruined farmhouse, ‘Top Withens’, believed to have been the inspiration for Wuthering Heights and then back via the Brontë waterfall. The moors were muddy and bleak and gave a very good flavour of the ‘Wuthering’ atmosphere created in the Brontë sisters’ novels.
After lunch in Haworth where the students were entertained by the locals with tales of Branwell Brontë, we were given a very informative talk about the background to the Brontës and specifically the context of ‘Jane Eyre’ the education team at the Brontë Parsonage and then had the opportunity to look around the Parsonage and see all the Brontë artefacts.
The students had the opportunity to visit some of the tourist shops in Haworth where many of the buildings which the Brontës would have visited remain unchanged. A guided tour of the main sites connected with the Brontë family in the town to gain further insight into the influences on the writing of the sisters completed a very inspiring and interesting day ‘up North’ before the journey home to Evesham.
Mrs C Webb
Head of Sixth Form
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