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where did the bronte sisters live

The Brontë sisters lived most of their lives in the village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, England, in the Haworth Parsonage on the edge of the moors (now the Brontë Parsonage Museum).

Quick Scoop: Their main home

  • The family moved to the parsonage in Haworth in 1820, when their father Patrick Brontë became the local clergyman.
  • Charlotte, Emily, and Anne grew up there and wrote their famous novels in that house, surrounded by the moorland that inspired much of their fiction.
  • Today, the parsonage is preserved as a museum dedicated to their lives and works.

But where were they born?

  • The Brontë sisters were born in the village of Thornton , near Bradford, also in West Yorkshire.
  • Their birthplace is a house on Market Street in Thornton, which once served as the local parsonage when Patrick Brontë was rector there.
  • The family lived in Thornton until 1820, before relocating to Haworth, where the sisters spent their childhood and adult years.

In short: born in Thornton , but truly “lived” and wrote in Haworth , the heart of what is now called Brontë Country.

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