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A self-guided audio walk through the Brontës' Haworth, told plainly about what is documented and what is tradition: from Haworth Old Hall up Main Street past the apothecary, the post office where the sisters sent off their manuscripts, the Black Bull and the King's Arms, to St Michael's Church and its churchyard, the Old School Room and the Parsonage, the family's home from 1820 to 1861. Then out onto the moor over Penistone Hill to Brontë Bridge, the Brontë Chair and the waterfall, on to the ruin of Top Withens, and down past Ponden Kirk to Ponden Hall, where the children sheltered from the bog burst of 1824. The village part is about 1 km. The moor part is about 8 km on rough paths from the Parsonage to Ponden Hall, which is about 3.5 km from the village.
15 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 30 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 8 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Haworth Old Hall, Haworth Main Street, The apothecary and the old post office, The Black Bull, The King's Arms, St Michael and All Angels' Church.
Haworth churchyard, Old School Room, Brontë Parsonage, Penistone Hill.
Brontë Bridge and the Brontë Chair, Brontë Waterfall, Top Withens, Ponden Kirk, Ponden Hall.
The post office from which Charlotte, Emily and Anne sent their manuscripts to London as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
Described as Branwell Brontë's favourite pub, the inn where his Masonic lodge had once met.
Patrick Brontë's church for forty-one years; only the tower survives from the building the family knew.
The family's home from 1820 to 1861, where Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey were written.
The ruined farm long linked with Wuthering Heights, and the Brontë Society plaque that corrects the story.
The Heaton family's house where the Brontë children sheltered from the 1824 bog burst, traditionally linked with Thrushcross Grange.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 15 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in The Brontës' Haworth — the Parsonage, the Church and the Moor, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including Haworth Main Street, St Michael and All Angels' Church, Brontë Parsonage, Brontë Waterfall and Haworth Old Hall. That is about 24 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~5 hours with the moor walk total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.