Haworth Walkabout


We will follow the pink fuzzy line
<-- on the air photo from #1 the site of
Pickles Wright's 

grave. Past the Church Tower
to Church Street. Right on Church Street
to the Kings Arms #2. Right on to Main St
and the Black Bull Inn at the top of
the street. Down the st past the Fleece Inn
#3 to the Old Hall #4 and on to Ducking Stool #5.
retrace our steps to the Old Hall and turn 
right to Belle Isle #6. Across the railway
by footbridge and end at Mill Hey #7



From #1 we see the National School 
on Church St. where Charlotte Brontë
 once taught------------------>
Mary Wright was mistress at the school in 1848.
 Previously, Mary kept a school on North Street,
 which Charlotte Brontë had attended in her youth


As we near the School, we see
<-- on our left, the Brontë Parsonage
where the Brontë sisters wrote their
novels in the first half of the 19th century










To our right is the Haworth Parish Church -->

 
 Turning right at Church St.,we approach the 
<-- Kings Arms (#2) where the Manorial Court 
of Haworth was held upstairs 

 Haworth Manor Court Rolls  1831
" we the Jurors aforesaid, do find and present that
 Nathan Wright 
hath done suit and service and paid 
his Fealty for a piece of land purchased of 
Wm. & John Thomas : 4s 8d "

Haworth Manor Court Rolls 1855 
Edward Wright for 
a purchase from John Wharfe : 2s 4d.

Turning right at the Kings Arms, ahead at the top of 
Main St is the Black Bull -->
a once favourite watering hole of Branwell Brontë
 Jonathan Wright was SW and a founding father of the Three Graces Lodge of Haworth 
which first met at the Black Bull in 1806. 
Branwell became a member in 1836.


Walking past the Black Bull down Main St. towards #3 
<---- Shows a section of Main St.in 1852 around the Fleece Inn. 
(after L & S Wood, Haworth Tithe Award 1852) 
 
Nathan Wright's house was a few doors above the Fleece Inn.
Edward Wright's grocer's 
shop lay across the Street and a few doors further up.
 Pickles Wright's house was a few doors below the Fleece.
 The cartwrights shop was across from the Fleece
  at the corner of Butt Lane and Main St.


Looking back, up Main St from --->  
the Fleece Inn (#3 on air photo).
The ashlar double shop front with pilasters at 75 & 77 Main St.,
on the left, was the site of sister's
Mary Wright and Sarah (Wright) Moore's 
millinery shop. Jonathan Wright Moore, 
born 1847 and baptised by Patrick Brontë, 
remembered Charlotte Brontë helping 
his widowed mother to thread needles 
at her millinery shop on Main Street, 
where her homemade straw hats 
drew customers from miles around.


<---- View down Main St from   
the Fleece Inn (#3 on the 
air photo)







Continuing down Main St we 
bear right on Sun Street and
 find, at #4, the ancient 
Haworth Old Hall,now a pub, 
on our right --->  
Joseph Pighills was a woolmaker living at Haworth Hall at the birth of his 
daughter Lydia in 1819.
Joseph's widow, Lydia 
Pighills, still lived at Haworth Hall in 1841


<---- Continuing down Sun St we 
reach Ducking Stool at #5, 
home of John Wright in 1881.
 In ancient times, Ducking 
Stool was the site of barbaric
 rituals perpetrated on the
 unpopular (after Turner, 1879,
Haworth Past & Present).
 Today, a public bench
 marks the spot.



Returning to #4 and going right
 at Bridgehouse Lane brings us 
to Belle Isle #6, home of ----->
Nathan & Susan Wright in 1816



<---- Walking through Belle Isle,
downstream from #6 we cross the
Railway by footbridge and see
Mill Hey (#7) ahead


Mill Hey was the home for many 
19th century Wright's. ---->

Nathan Wright, Mill Hey, 1881
Stephen Wright, 7 Back Mill Hey, 1891
Pickles Wright, 28 Mill Hey, 1901 

Ok - Time for Fish & Chips 
next to the Royal Oak Inn,
where Sarah (Wright) Moore's husband John
was the first landlord of Haworth's newest
pub in 1855

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