Top Withens

Feeling energetic? Then continue to climb up from the Brontë Waterfall to Top Withens, a desolate ruin on the windswept Pennine Way moors, believed to be the location of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s home in the novel of the same name.

Whether the former farm building was Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the atmospheric manor house is up for debate (there’s a Brontë Society plaque at Top Withens that says it bears no resemblance), but it’s certainly easy to believe that the wild moorland is the Heights’ haunting and romantic setting.