Wooden signpost pointing to Ponden Hall - the building use Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights as both Wuthering Heights itself, and Thrushcross Grange

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Ponden Hall long been identified with the Lintons’ home Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights, and some details – the long, tree-lined drive which then existed, the large upstairs room with a window either end – correspond with that house. Ponden is more like Wuthering Heights in size, style and detail. In an account by William Davies (published 1896) after a visit to Haworth in 1858, he tells how, after meeting Patrick Brontë, he was taken on a tour of the area: “On leaving the house we were taken across the moors to visit a waterfall which was a favourite haunt of the sisters… We then went on to an old manorial farm called ‘Heaton’s of Ponden’, which we were told was the original model of Wuthering Heights, which indeed corresponded in some measure to the description given in Emily Brontë’s romance…”

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Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Ponden Hall, Haworth, BD22 0HR, England
Photo credit: © K J Bennett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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