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Places behind Wuthering Heights

Explore the places behind Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë on the map.

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What places are behind Wuthering Heights?

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë has scenes in 1 place you can visit: Haworth - plus 1 place behind its invented settings: Top Withens.

  • Haworth (West Yorkshire)
  • Top Withens (Haworth Moor)

  1. Haworth

    West Yorkshire

    Haworth's parsonage was the Brontë family home, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their novels. The moorland above the village shaped their writing and is where Wuthering Heights takes place.

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  2. Top Withens

    Haworth Moor

    Top Withens is a popular walk from Haworth, but its own wall plaque says the farmhouse bore no resemblance to the invented house. Its lonely moorland setting, rather than its layout, is thought to have inspired Wuthering Heights.

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Reading your way into Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights unfolds on the moorland above Haworth, but the house itself is invented. Top Withens, a roofless farmhouse ruin three and a half miles from the village, has long been linked to it. The novel's opening chapter explains "wuthering" as a provincial word for the atmospheric tumult a house faces in stormy weather.