A corner of yorkshire RAISTRICK GREAVE

Because of the widely held belief it was the inspiration for Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights, the best-known ruined farmhouse in England is Top Withins on Pennine uplands to the west of Haworth. Less famous but visually more atmospheric is an even more remote derelict farm called

Raistrick Greave. Long a favourite with photographers, it lies about a mile from the Yorkshire-Lancashire border on the north-facing slopes of Heptonstall Moor above Widdop.

Its name is derived from the Viking surname Rastrick and the Old English “graefe” for copse, which suggests there was once woodland on what today is a bare moor. Believed to date from the 17th century, Raistrick Greave is a more substantial farm than Top Withins.

The original building was extended twice, once to add a cottage then a barn, and it is enclosed by nowdilapidated walls.