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The Brontës Walking Tour
Yorkshire

Walk from the druggist's shop where Branwell bought laudanum to the lonely farmhouse ruin linked to Wuthering Heights.

9 stops

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Branwell's Apothecary

In the years before his death in 1848, Branwell Brontë came to this druggist's shop to buy laudanum, an opium tincture sold legally without a prescription.

Post to the World

The Brontë sisters mailed their novel manuscripts to London publishers from this post office, where the original early Victorian counter still survives.

Branwell's Favorite Haunt

Branwell Brontë drank at this 16th-century coaching inn, where his oddly shaped Masonic chair is still kept on the staircase.

Eternal Rest

Every Brontë except Anne is buried in a vault beneath this church, whose overcrowded graveyard was found in 1850 to be polluting the village's water supply.

Charlotte's Sanctuary

After their 1854 honeymoon, Charlotte Brontë and her husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls, invited about five hundred parishioners to tea and supper in this schoolroom.

Brontë Home Base

The Brontë sisters wrote Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and much of Jane Eyre in this house, where the sofa on which Emily is said to have died is still on display.

Moorland Gateway

In 2016, the BBC built a full-size replica of the Brontë Parsonage on this moorland to film To Walk Invisible, its drama about the family.

Watery Wonders

In November 1854, Charlotte Brontë walked here after the snow melted and found the falls "a perfect torrent racing over the rocks, white and beautiful."

The Possible Heights

A 1964 Brontë Society plaque on this ruin admits it never resembled the house in Wuthering Heights, though Emily Brontë may have had its lonely moorland setting in mind.

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