Join the West Yorkshire Group on the 18th August for a guided walk around the Pennine village of Haworth, including a private guided tour of the Victorian Church of St Michael and All Angels. Led by West Yorkshire Group Committee member Alison Montgomery we’ll explore the village centre, famous for its association with the Bronte family, and the Victorian industrial area that lies on the eastern side of the village – known as Haworth Brow.
Our meeting point will be the parish church, St Michael and All Angels (Grade II, 1879), where the walk will begin with a private tour. There has been a church on this site since the medieval period, but the present church is mainly a Victorian rebuild by F. and T. H. Healey, although retaining some late medieval/post medieval elements. After a quick look at the churchyard and the buildings adjacent, we’ll walk down the famous Main Street and across the river. Here, we’ll see the village’s most intact surviving mill (Grade II, c.1800 and c.1840) and the railway goods yard before a private tour of the 1860s Worth Valley Railway Station (Grade II, 1867 and 1833), led by a representative from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. We follow this with a short walk back through the former industrial area of Haworth Brow, seeing some ‘at risk’ buildings and the back-to-back worker housing that was constructed in the second half of the 19th Century.
Please note that Haworth is a typical Pennines village, with steep hills. The village core is at the top of the hill and our walk through the village to the railway station will take approximately 10-15 minutes (downhill).
If you wish to travel by train, the KWVR heritage railway trains run daily over the summer to Haworth from Keighley, where there are connections with frequent Northern trains from Leeds and Bradford.