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 the National School 
on Church St. where Charlotte Brontë
 once taught-->


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


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)


<---- 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