Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë · Haworth

Explore Haworth Parsonage, where Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë wrote Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Schedule

Wednesday to Monday, 10:00 to 17:00 · closed on Tuesdays

Admission

£15 · £13 over-65s · £9 concession

Address

Church Street, Haworth, West Yorkshire, BD22 8DR, United Kingdom

Visits

Self-guided, no timed entry

The house

Haworth Parsonage

Have you read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights? Both were written in the same house: the old parsonage in Haworth, the Yorkshire village where Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë lived. Today it's the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and you can wander through the rooms where those two novels were born, along with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Their father, Patrick Brontë, was the parson of St Michael and All Angels' Church, where the family is buried. Even in Charlotte's lifetime (she died in 1855), visitors began arriving in Haworth hoping to catch a glimpse of the last of the sisters. After Patrick's death in 1861, the contents of the house were scattered among relatives, friends, servants and auction rooms.

In 1893 the Brontë Society was founded to bring those treasures back together. In 1928 Sir James Roberts, a Haworth-born wool merchant, bought the house and gave it to the Society. Today the museum holds the world's largest collection of Brontë objects.

Haworth Parsonage, home of the Brontë sisters.

What you'll see on the visit

The family rooms

The historic rooms, small and linked by narrow corridors, where their novels were written. Every one of them still holds original Brontë objects.

The collection

From chamber pots to bracelets: the world's largest collection of Brontë objects, which the Brontë Society began gathering in 1893.

The temporary exhibitions

The museum puts on changing exhibitions and installations, and your ticket lets you come back to see them for a whole year.

Parson’s Field

Next to the museum, a first taste of the wild moors that surround Haworth and so inspired the sisters.

Additional information

The Brontë sisters' route

If you're staying in the Lake District, the Brontë sisters literary route from Windermere takes you to this house in a day, with admission included, and to other places that inspired them, such as Wycoller and Ponden Hall.

Plan your visit

Tickets can be bought online or at the welcome desk, at the back of the building, and are valid for a whole year. In high season there may be a short wait in the garden.

Book a visit

Additional information

Concession tickets for students, disabled people, households receiving benefits and local residents
Ages 12 to 16, £7.50; under-12s get in free when visiting with family
Companions of disabled visitors get in free
You can leave and come back in as many times as you like during your visit
The ground floor is wheelchair accessible via the rear entrance, through a 55 cm door; the first floor can only be reached by stairs, and there is a ground-floor-only ticket (£7.50)
Only assistance dogs are allowed
There's no left-luggage facility

Opening hours and closures