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HAWORTH, an urban district in the Keighley parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 10 m. N.W. of Bradford, on a branch of the L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931), 5,912. It is picturesquely situated at an altitude of 600 ft., sur rounded by moorland, on the steep slope of a tributary valley of the Worth, which flows north to join the Aire. The parsonage was the home of Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and a memorial near the west window of St. Michael's church bears their name, and that of their father, the Rev. Patrick Bronte. In 1895, a museum was opened by the Bronte Society, and in Aug. 1928 the parsonage was presented by Sir James Roberts to the Brontė Society as a permanent museum and library. The worsted industry of Haworth is important.

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