TourWuthering
of theHeights
UK
Emily Brontë
Devyn Richmond
Seven Stops on the Way!
• Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• High Sunderland Hall (Wuthering
Heights)
• Top Withens (Wuthering
Heights)
• Shibden Hall (Thrushcross
Grange)
• Ponden Clough Beck (Penistone
Crags)
• The
Moors
• Liverpool, United
Kingdom
Yorkshire, England
• The city of Yorkshire is where
the majority of the story takes
place. Yorkshire is considered a
very historic county and is the
largest in the United Kingdom.
• "Have you noticed, Catherine,
his frightful Yorkshire
pronunciation?" (Brontë 638).
High Sunderland Hall
• High Sunderland Hall is believed to have been one of the inspirations for the
Earnshaw farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. High Sunderland was located near
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Brontë worked as a governess in the building in
1838. Although it was very extravagant compared to the fictional farmhouse of
Wuthering Heights, the halls of High Sunderland were filled with grotesque
decorations of griffins and odd nude men very similar to those described by
Lockwood in chapter one.
• “Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving
lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which,
among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys" (Brontë 9).
• High Sunderland Hall is now demolished.
Top Withens
• Top Withens is also believed to
have been the other inspiration for
the farmhouse, Wuthering
Heights. Top Withens is a ruined,
isolated farmhouse in Haworth,
West Yorkshire, England.
Although, the structure of Top
Withens doesn't exactly match the
description given in the novel of
the Earnshaw family home,
Wuthering Heights, it was first
suggested to be the model for the
fictitious farmhouse.
• “One stop brought us into the
family sitting-room, without any
introductory lobby or passage:
they call it here 'the house'
Shibden Hall
• Shibden Hall is strongly believed that it was what Brontë had in mind when
creating Thrushcross Grange, another fictional location in the novel. Shibden Hall
is also located near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Thrushcross Grange is the
home of the superior Linton's, where there are high walls and many restrictions. It
lies within a very large park, like Shibden Hall, and is four miles south of Wuthering
Heights.
• “Is Wuthering Heights as pleasant a place as Thrushcross Grange?" ... "It is not so
buried in trees,' I replied, 'and it is not quite so large, but you can see the country
beautifully all round; and the air is healthier for you--fresher and drier" (Brontë
593).
• Shibden Hall has many features that match the description of the Linton Home in
the novel and is still standing today.
Ponden Clough Beck
• Ponden Clough Beck is a rock
formation out beside Ponden
Woods in England. It is said to
be the inspiration of the
Penistone Crags in the novel.
Penistone Crags is a rock
formation that Catherine wants
to see throughout the entire
story, but her father warns her
that it's too dangerous. Finally,
she sneaks out and realizes just
how amazing the Penistone
Crags is. It is the one place
where the characters could be
free. It's their safe place.
• “The abrupt descent of
Penistone Crags particularly
The Moors
• The Moors is an enormous
terrain in North Yorkshire,
England. In the novel, it's
where the characters went to
be themselves and be free
(also where Penistone Crags
is located). It's where
Catherine and Heathcliff went
to spend time together. It was
also where Heathcliff spent
his time in sorrow after
Catherine dies. As you can
tell, The Moors has a strong
significance in the story
representing Catherine and
Heathcliff's love.
• “But it was one of their chief
Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Liverpool is a populated city in northwest
England. In the novel, Mr. Earnshaw
takes a business trip to the city and finds
a little boy wandering the streets.
Earnshaw takes the boy home with him
to Wuthering Heights and names him
Heathcliff.
• “We crowded round, and over Miss
Cathy's head I had a peep at a dirty,
ragged, black-haired child; big enough
both to walk and talk: indeed, its face
looked older than Catherine's; yet when it
was set on its feet, it only stared round,
and repeated over and over again some
gibberish that nobody could understand"
(Brontë 53).