Walking with the Brontës

A couple of books have been published recently with routes and walks directly related to the Brontës:

Walking with the Brontës in West Yorkshire
By Norman Buckley and June Buckley
Fraces Lincoln
Paperback, 144 pages
15 maps and 30 colour photographs 
ISBN: 978071123254
Published: 22nd March 2012

Explore one of England's great landscapes in the company of the great writers with whom it is indelibly associated. In the style of Walking with Beatrix Potter and Walking with Wordsworth, Walking with the Brontës is a pocket-sized book containing fifteen walking routes, predominantly in West Yorkshire.

Each walk is to somewhere associated with one or more of the Brontë family, either in real life or with important characters or places in their novels: for instance the house on which Emily based Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights, or the countryside around Cowan Bridge School which, with its harsh regime, caused the Brontë girls much suffering and became Lowood School in Charlotte's Jane Eyre.

The walks are generally short and fairly easy, contrasting semi-urban areas with the wild moorland above their home at the Parsonage Haworth. Each route is fully described, aided by sketch plans, and illustrated by new colour photographs. In each case, a separate text explains the Brontë associations, with extracts from their writing.

Short Scenic Walks - Haworth & Brontë Country 
Paul Hannon
Publisher: Hillside Publications
Publication date: 19/03/2012
ISBN-13: 9781907626081

This is Book 20 in the exciting new series of full-colour "Pocket Walks", being small, practical sized guidebooks aimed at the less serious rambler. Full colour photographs and colourful sketch maps accompany each of the well described walks, with the bonus of making it an attractive souvenir of the area. Principal feature is that all walks are less than five miles in length (though averaging 4 miles each, they are all very definitely worthwhile outings), making them ideal for families, leisure walkers, and others constrained by either time or other limitations. Concise route descriptions are complemented by background information. This title deals with the area around the Brontë shrine of Haworth and the Worth Valley in the absorbing countryside of the South Pennines. Twenty super walks use starting points such as Oxenhope and Stanbury, and of course Haworth itself. Places visited include Top Withins, Harden Moor, Ponden and Goit Stock. "Haworth & Brontë Country" is published simultaneously with Book 21 covering neighbouring area Hebden Bridge & the Calder Valley, and also slots neatly alongside previously published titles "Aire Valley" and "Around Pendle".