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Yorkshire Dales |
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North York Moors |
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Brontes Parsonage Museum (Haworth, near Bradford) –
Visit the Parsonage in Haworth, home to Emily and Charlotte Bronte. Haworth
is surrounded by theYorkshire moors where the sisters rambled while they
wrote their rambling novels. Even if your kids haven't read the Bronte novels,
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From the charming village of Haworth, take footpaths to Bronte
Falls, Bronte Bridge and the Bronte Stone where the sisters
wrote stories. Farther up on the moors is Top Withins, a ruin on
a windy hillside, thought to be the setting of Wuthering
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Mother Shipton's Cave (Knaresborough) –
Mother Shipton's Cave is one of those oddities, where water from the Petrifying
Well above seeps down into the cave. Over the years, people have brought
everyday objects which quickly become encased in stone, A tourist site since
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Sent
to live in a gloomy manor on the bleak Yorkshire moors, Mary and
her friend Dickon bring a neglected garden back to life. Bring this
timeless favorite on your trip to read while you explore Yorkshire.
(Chapter book)
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Easy-to-read
version of Charlotte Bronte's classic. Orphan Jane Eyre takes
a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. She falls in love
with Edward Rochester, but there's a mystery brewing, and Jane
is separated from her beloved Rochester. (Easy reader)
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Wonderful
Victorian-style adventure in Yorkshire – cousins Bonnie and
Sylvia, helped by Simon, narrowly escape ravenous wolves in the
snow, only to fall into the clutches of a scheming governess,
who's taken over Willoughby Chase. (Chapter book)
Simon's adventures
continue in Black
Hearts in Battersea.
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Mandy's
loves animals (her parents are Yorkshire veternarians), but Mandy
has a special affection for Matty, a silver-gray mare. When Matty's
elderly owner auctions off his other horses, Matty somehow disappears.
Heart-warming horse story with lots of local color. (Chapter book)
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Irresistible
collection of James Herriot's lovable animal stories, beautifully
illustrated – a black kitten finds a new pink mother, a sheepdog
only barks one, a spring lamb sneaks out under a fence, a cow finds
her way home, and more. (Chapter book, illustrations)
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(More children's
books on other England pages) |
