Bronte country

Trip Start Dec 18, 2011

Trip End Feb 29, 2012

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Flag of United Kingdom Keighley, England, United Kingdom
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

After a typically late start, it was decided that Haworth, the village made famous by the Bronte sisters, would be the day’s destination. It was surprisingly crowded for a cold mid-winter day, with predominantly British day-trippers strolling up and down the cobbled main street. We stopped into the church, with its strong associations with the Brontes, and happened to be there when a local BBC news team was wrapping up their reporting on the loss of grant funding for restoration and repair to the church.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/31/bronte-landscape-housing-tourist-trade
As we arrived back at the main street, there was a parade of tractors and other vehicles. Interesting, but no one we spoke with seemed to know what it was all about.
On our way out of town, we stopped briefly late in the day at the train station, where the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway steam trains stop.

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