Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
When Emily Brontë wrote her bleak gothic novel Wuthering Heights in 1847, she drew inspiration from long walks on the lonely moors above the village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, where she lived with her sisters Anne and Charlotte from 1820 to 1861.
Even the name of her tale references weather and landscape, and Brontë often conveys Heathcliff’s brooding mood via the cold, foggy moorland that surrounds him.
“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath,” his soulmate Cathy declares, likening her love for him to the gritstone outcrops in areas such as Ponden Kirk (renamed Penistone Crag in the novel) where the fated lovers meet.
Today, you can hike to Ponden Kirk from Haworth and visit the ruins of Top Withens, said to be the inspiration for the Wuthering Heights farmhouse. The Brontë Parsonage Museum is located at the former Brontë family home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
Margot Robbie plays Cathy to Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in a film adaptation of the novel, due for release in February 2026. (Ellie Tennant)
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