Haworth is a village in City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in the Pennines, 3 miles south-west of Keighley, 10 miles west of Bradford and 10 miles east of Colne in Lancashire.
FactSnippet No. 788,709 |
Haworth is a village in City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in the Pennines, 3 miles south-west of Keighley, 10 miles west of Bradford and 10 miles east of Colne in Lancashire.
FactSnippet No. 788,709 |
Haworth is a tourist destination known for its association with the Bronte sisters and the preserved heritage Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
FactSnippet No. 788,710 |
Haworth is part of the civil parish of Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury, which in turn is part of the Bradford Metropolitan District Council, one of the five metropolitan boroughs of West Yorkshire.
FactSnippet No. 788,711 |
Between 1938 and 1974, Haworth was part of the Municipal Borough of Keighley, and before that it had been a civil parish and urban district in its own right.
FactSnippet No. 788,712 |
In Haworth, there are tea rooms, souvenir and antiquarian bookshops, restaurants, pubs and hotels, including the Black Bull, where Branwell Bronte's decline into alcoholism and opium addiction allegedly began.
FactSnippet No. 788,713 |
Haworth Band is one of the oldest secular musical organisations in the Keighley area.
FactSnippet No. 788,715 |
Haworth'storic records indicate that there was a brass band at nearby Ponden in 1854 with a body of excellent performers.
FactSnippet No. 788,716 |
Haworth's exhibited widely in the UK and USA in public and private exhibitions and received an arts association award for her ceramic sculptures.
FactSnippet No. 788,717 |
In 2016 the BBC drama To Walk Invisible was shot in and around Haworth and included a full-scale replica of the Bronte Parsonage, Old School Rooms and Haworth Church at the time of the Brontes on nearby Penistone Hill.
FactSnippet No. 788,719 |