HAWORTH

town, Bradford metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England, overlooking the River Worth and adjoining the town of Keighley. In 1820 the Reverend Patrick Bront brought his wife and six childrenincluding Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, later of international literary fameto Haworth. The Church of St. Michael contains their family memorials, and the adjacent parsonage (1779) has since 1928 housed the museum of the Bront Society (founded 1893). The fictional manor houses of Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, and Ferndean Manor as depicted in the Bront sisters' novels are all associated with buildings in the locality. Pop. (1991) 4,956.