Protecting Walshaw Moor

 Actually the World’s Most Wuthering Heights Day on Yorkshire Bylines:

It’s this devotion which gives rise to the ‘Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever’. From Melbourne to Berlin, Paris to Oslo, thousands of people meet on or around 30 July to celebrate the shared birthday of Emily Brontë and Kate Bush in a ‘mass wuther’. All ages, all genders, together they dance the famous Wuthering Heights choreography in flowing red dresses and Kate Bush wigs.

Tomorrow, for the first time, the global Mass Wuther comes home – to Haworth, the setting of Wuthering Heights. Dog walkers in Penistone Country Park will encounter a sea of red as 500 costumed dancers recreate Kate Bush’s moves in the very landscape which inspired the book and the song. For me, Suzanne Triggs and Sophie Bramley, the three unpaid co-organisers, it’s a labour of love: an unforgettable opportunity to celebrate the creative genius of Kate Bush and Emily Brontë. (...)

Protecting Walshaw Moor

Walshaw Moor stretches from Top Withens to East Lancashire – and is primarily peatland. Peatlands play a crucial role in protecting us from climate change – globally, peatlands hold at least twice the carbon stored by forests. Although 80% of the UK’s peatlands have been drained, stripped or otherwise damaged, they still contain over three billion tonnes of carbon – more than all the forests of the UK, France and Germany combined. The blanket bog which forms the top layer of peat can absorb up to 20 times its own weight in rainwater, helping to mitigate flooding in the Upper Calder Valley.

Yet this vital landscape could become the site of a massive industrial complex: Calderdale Energy Park (formerly Calderdale Wind Farm). There will be 41 turbines, each 200m high (two thirds the height of the London Shard) and with a 170m rotor diameter. There will be a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), an electricity sub-station and a huge amount of infrastructure including aggregate tracks snaking across the moor to each turbine.

Consider, if you will, that a footprint in peat can last for 25 years, and that peat grows at a rate of 1mm a year. Some of the peat on Walshaw Moor has been growing since the Bronze Age. It is 3,000 years old. Once peat is disturbed, it begins to emit carbon, rather than store it. This will be a very dirty wind farm.

The development is opposed by major ecological and heritage organisations, including the RSPB, CPRE – the Countryside Charity, and the Brontë Society. Nevertheless, an application for a development consent order is expected to be submitted to the planning inspectorate in June 2026. (Clare Shaw)

The Sunday Times lists the best heritage railways in the UK:

8. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, West Yorkshire

The Railway Children, based on a story by E Nesbit, was first made into a classic film in 1970 and filmed on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, which also hosted the 2022 remake. This line is no stranger to compelling fiction, with one of its stops being Haworth, the home of the Brontë sisters. The steam railway was originally funded by mill owners and runs for five miles between Oxenhope and Keighley. Train buffs particularly love its wuthering heights, with great pillars of steam and the sound of the hard-working locomotives echoing off the steep valley sides. The Yorkshire Dales National Park is just north. (Andrew Earnes)

Mamamia thinks that Oberon, near Sydney

It's cold. It's foggy. It's deeply atmospheric in a Wuthering Heights meets Gilmore Girls kind of way. (Srinidi Baskaran)

GoBookMart explains what literary analysis is with examples:

The time and place of a story often carry symbolic or thematic weight.

Example: The bleak moors in “Wuthering Heights” mirror the wild, passionate nature of the characters. (Sakshi Nadkarni)

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