Haworth Moor and Top Withins
Haworth Moor and Top Withins on AllTrails

Start to Enfield Side Road
From the parking lay-bys on Cemetery Road, make your way to the vehicle entrance for the cemetery (which is at the western edge of the stone boundary wall). Standing on the road, facing the cemetery entrance and hillside, take the grass track (signed as a public path) at about 2 o'clock. The grass and stone track swings left up the hill, with the cemetery boundary wall across to the left.
Where the boundary wall ends you will come to a junction of paths. Turn right (at about 2 o'clock) on the stone path which winds across the moorland. At the T-junction turn right on a path which leads you to the right of the large stone mounds. Across to the right you will be able to see Lower Laithe Reservoir in the valley bottom.
Just after passing a couple of picnic benches, you will come to a junction marked with a fingerpost on the right. Turn right here on the path signed to Bronte Falls and Top Withins. You may notice that the signpost is also labelled in Japanese, a sure sign that you are in Bronte Country.
Follow the narrow path down to the crossroads with a road. Cross over with care and go ahead on the footpath, passing a bench on the left. This next short stretch of moorland footpath leads you down to a junction with a stone track, Enfield Side Road.
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Enfield Side Road to Bronte Bridge
Turn left along the track and pass through the kissing gate (alongside a cattle grid). NOTE: From this point you will be sharing the moorland paths with sheep. Follow the stone track for some distance, passing Springs Farm and a ruined farmhouse along the way.
Further along the track narrows to a stone path, leads you across the centre of a section of moorland and heads down some rocky steps to reach Bronte Bridge. This is a popular destination so don't expect to have the spot to yourself! It is often a hive of activity with people picnicking on the rocks and children and dogs paddling in South Dean Beck.
To the left you will see Bronte Waterfall although, unless you are visiting after heavy periods of rain, this is more likely to be a trickle of water over the rocks. There is a stone-shaped chair by the bridge, Bronte Chair in which (it is said) the sisters took turns to sit and write their first stories.
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Bronte Bridge to Upper Heights
Cross the bridge and then keep directly ahead on the path up the hill. Go through the kissing gate and you will come to a junction marked with a fingerpost. Take the left-hand branch and follow this flagstone path as it continues to climb. The path passes through a number of broken stone walls, running parallel to the beck down to the left and then with a stone wall running on the right.
You will come to a stone squeeze stile (NOTE: for this next short section you are likely to be sharing the path with Highland Cattle, which were very relaxed around the walkers and dogs when we passed through). Go through the stile and continue in the same direction with a broken wall running on the left.
The next kissing gate leads you into a section of open access moorland. Turn sharp right immediately after this gate to join the path which swings steadily left heading uphill with a stone wall on the right. At the corner of the wall, turn right staying on the path alongside the wall. After passing a gate and kissing gate on the right, the path becomes a wider grass track. Follow this, heading for the dense copse of trees ahead and then swinging steadily left with the copse across to the right.
When the copse of the trees ends and the main track swings right, keep straight ahead on the more subtle track to reach a fingerpost set in front of a farmhouse, Upper Heights.
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Upper Heights to Top Withins
Turn left along the stone track, part of the Pennine Way, passing the farmhouse on your right. Follow this obvious stone track leading you across the top of the moorland, passing over a couple of tiny streams along the way.
In the distance ahead you may already be able to see the ruins of Top Withins, your next destination on this walk. The stone track becomes a flagstone vehicle track, climbing steadily to reach a junction marked with a fingerpost. Keep ahead for just a further 200m to reach the ruins of Top Withins.
Take time to explore the ruins. There are some benches if you wish to stop for refreshments here. This old farmhouse is said to have been the inspiration for the location of the Earnshaw family house Wuthering Heights in the novel of the same name by Emily Bronte. A plaque affixed to a wall reads: This farmhouse has been associated with Wuthering Heights, the Earnshaw home in Emily Bronte's novel. The buildings, even when complete, bore no resemblance to the house she described, but the situation may have been in her mind when she wrote of the moorland setting of the Heights.

Top Withins to Harbour Lodge
When you've finished exploring the site, retrace your steps back the way you came for 200m to the fingerpost. Fork right on the path signed to Haworth. Follow this track heading steadily downhill and passing through the remains of an old stone wall. Continue down to the stepping stones and use these to cross the narrow stream.
Continue on the path and, about 80m further along, you will come to a waymarker post. Fork right here onto the more subtle grass footpath leading you downhill. The path crosses South Dean Beck via a pair of footbridges and then climbs up a rocky path at the far side.
Once up the steep slope, keep directly ahead on the narrow path along the moorland edge, with a steep valley down to Crumber Dike down to the right. This section of moorland is thick with heather which transforms into a blaze of purple flowers in mid to late summer.
Ignore the first small path to the left and eventually you will come to a junction of paths marked with a fingerpost (with the summit of Harbour Hill up to the left). Go directly ahead, signed to Haworth, and follow this ridge path which swings steadily left and then leads you along the left-hand side of a stone wall to pass by the property Harbour Lodge (on your right).

Harbour Lodge to Leeshaw Stone Wall
Beyond the property walls you will come to a T-junction with a flagstone path, marked with a fingerpost. Turn right and follow the path over the footbridge and up the slope to reach the next signed junction.
Turn left to join the stone track signed to Haworth. You will have noticed that the paths on this side of the moorland are much quieter, a clear demonstration of the Bronte effect in drawing the crowds to the northern paths you used on the outward leg.
The track swings left and then right and continues ahead. Some way further along, look out for a waymarker post on the right. Fork right here to join a narrow moorland path which leads you down towards Leeshaw Reservoir. The path, which can get boggy in parts, leads you down to a stone wall, with Leeshaw Reservoir beyond.

Leeshaw Stone Wall to End
Turn left and follow the path with the stone wall running to the right. At the next junction, continue ahead, passing to the left of Drop Farm and joining its access drive. Follow this steadily down and towards the end cross the cattle grid (or use the gate alongside). A short distance later you will come to a T-junction with the road (with Westfield Lodges opposite).
Cross over the road with care and turn left along the grass verge. Continue up the hill for about 100m and then turn right onto the stone track signed as a public path, back into Penistone Hill Country Park. At the first fork keep left and then go straight ahead at the crossroads (a narrow path signed to the Moorside Car Park).
The path leads you past the picnic benches that you saw on your outward leg. From this point you will be re-tracing your steps back to the car park. To do this, keep ahead with Lower Laithe Reservoir down to the left and passing the large rocky mounds on your right. Take the first stone path on the left and follow it winding across the moor. You will come to a junction with the corner of the cemetery wall ahead. Turn left here (about 9 o'clock) onto the stone track running downhill with the cemetery wall running to the right. At the bottom you will emerge down to Cemetery Road, home to the parking lay-bys where the walk began.

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