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Waterfall in Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England

Brontë Waterfall


Location	West Yorkshire, England
Coordinates	53°49′6.05″N 2°0′12.95″W / 53.8183472°N 2.0035972°W / 53.8183472; -2.0035972

Brontë Waterfall on the South Dean Beck is about a mile south-west of Stanbury, near Haworth in West Yorkshire, England. The area surrounding the waterfall is mainly moorland and farmland in Brontë Country, an area of outstanding beauty famous for its association with the Brontë sisters. Below the falls is Brontë Bridge, an old stone bridge across the beck. A flash flood in May 1989, swept the bridge away. In March 1990, a Lynx helicopter from No. 9 Regiment Army Air Corps, airlifted five gritstone slabs into the narrow valley to allow park rangers to repair the crossing.

Brontë trail

The Brontë Trail, a nature trail, starts in Haworth in the South Pennines and crosses the moors to the waterfall. Continuing on, Top Withens can be reached on the same walk. The location of the ruined farmhouse is reputed to have been the inspiration for the setting of Wuthering Heights, the 1847 Emily Brontë novel.

References

"Top Withens (aka Wuthering Heights)". BBC Home. BBC. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
"Bronte country, The Pennines, Yorkshire". The Guardian. 20 May 2006. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
Davenport, Peter (29 March 1990). "Air skill restores Brontë Bridge". The Times. No. 63666. p. 5. ISSN 0140-0460.
"Top Withens - the inspiration for the Wuthering Heights farmhouse?". wuthering-heights.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

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v t e Brontë sisters
Charlotte	Jane Eyre (1847) Shirley (1849) Villette (1853) The Professor (1857)
Emily	"Lines" (1837) "To a Wreath of Snow" (1837) "F. De Samara to A. G. A." (1838) "Come hither child" (1839) "A Death-Scene" (1844) Wuthering Heights (1847)
Anne	"Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day" (1846) Agnes Grey (1847) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Collaborative work	Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) List of Brontë poems
Juvenilia	A Book of Ryhmes Glass Town The Young Men's Magazine Gondal
Family	Patrick Brontë (father) Maria Branwell (mother) Branwell Brontë (brother) Maria Brontë (sister) Elizabeth Brontë (sister) Elizabeth Branwell (aunt) Arthur Bell Nicholls (Charlotte's husband) John Kingston (uncle-in-law) William Morgan (husband of first cousin once removed)
Locations	Haworth (village which was home to and is greatly associated with the Brontës) Brontë Birthplace (house in Thornton, birthplace of the Brontë sisters) Thornton (village which was home to the Brontës) Hartshead (village which was home to the Brontës) Brontë Country (landscape portrayed in the Brontë novels) Brontë Parsonage Museum (former home and now museum of the Brontës) Brontë Waterfall (waterfall associated with the Brontë sisters) Brontë Way (footpath associated with the Brontë sisters) Cowan Bridge School (school attended by the Brontë sisters) St Michael and All Angels' Church (church of which Patrick Brontë was pastor)
Associates	Ellen Nussey (lifelong friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë) Elizabeth Gaskell (lifelong friend and biographer of Charlotte Brontë) Mary Taylor (lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë) Constantin Héger (teacher who was loved by Charlotte Brontë) George Smith (publisher of the Brontës)
Cultural legacy	Devotion (1946 film) Les Sœurs Brontë (1979 film) Brontë (2005 play) To Walk Invisible (2016 film) Emily (2022 film) Victorian literature
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v t e Waterfalls of Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire	Brontë Goit Stock

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