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This is a good starting place for those literary buffs wishing to visit Top Withins - or Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is the elevation overlooking the reservoir. The Millennium Way footpath to the Bronte Waterfalls runs along Enfield Side Road behind it.
©David Spencer
Dist:0.1km<br/>Moor grasses, sedges and brown heather dominates the foreground on Penistone Hill, whilst beyond are stone walls around improved pasture land.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Behind the trees is Lower Laithe Reservoir, while the village of Stanbury sits on the ridge beyond.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.3km<br/>Path across the moor to the west of Haworth, leading to Bronte Bridge and the ruins of Top Withins.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Viewed looking west.
©Pete Chapman
Dist:0.3km<br/>The path comes off Penistone Hill which can be seen ahead with its quarry remains.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.4km<br/>Construction of Lower Laithe Reservoir was started in 1914; work was delayed due to the Great War. It was officially finished on Tuesday 27th January 1925 when the Major of Keighley (Robert Calverley) closed the valves. It holds 281 million gallons of water. http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/walks/bronte_waterfall/waterfall.asp - Haworth Village.org
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>Construction of Lower Laithe Reservoir was started in 1914; work was delayed due to the Great War. It was officially finished on Tuesday 27th January 1925 when the Major of Keighley (Robert Calverley) closed the valves. It holds 281 million gallons of water. http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/walks/bronte_waterfall/waterfall.asp - Haworth Village.org
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The stone above the doorway reads: KEIGHLEY CORPORATION LOWER LAITHE RESERVOIR 1925
©David Spencer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Penistone Hill used to be a quarry, evidence of which is scattered around. The area is now a Country Park.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>Moorland edge on Penistone Hill near Haworth.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking north along the road across Lower Laithe reservoir with the village of Stanbury far side left. The reservoir is fed from the west (left) by streams on Haworth Moor (Top Withens and the Bronte Waterfalls being points of interest and beauty). The reservoir was constructed between 1911 and 1925, submerging the hamlet of Smith Bank.
©BC
Dist:0.4km<br/>Construction of Lower Laithe Reservoir was started in 1914; work was delayed due to the Great War. It was officially finished on Tuesday 27th January 1925 when the Major of Keighley (Robert Calverley) closed the valves. It holds 281 million gallons of water. http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/walks/bronte_waterfall/waterfall.asp - Haworth Village.org
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The village beyond the reservoir is Stanbury, which lies in the adjacent square
©Phil Champion

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