HaWorth, West yorkshIre

This charming former mill town is less than half an hour’s drive from the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, and has the distinction of being where the Brontë family grew up. They lived in a handsome parsonage, today a fascinating museum, where sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne wrote most of their novels. Today you can walk some of the routes they would have done, and see the places from where they took their inspiration; for example, the ruined farmhouse of Top Withens, said to have been the fictional location of the Earnshaw family house in Emily’s Wuthering Heights.

Where to stay Ponden Hall, an atmospheric B&B in a building with long recorded associations with the Brontës. All this and a cracking breakfast too. Rooms from £95; ponden-hall.co.uk