The Brontë Family at Thornton Parsonage (AW61)

In 1815 Patrick Brontë, his wife Maria and their daughters Maria and Elizabeth, moved into Thornton Parsonage in the village of that name close to Bradford, after Mr Brontë was appointed local vicar. Twenty years later he fondly recalled: “My happiest days were spent there.”
By 1820 the family had considerably grown to include Charlotte, born 1816, Branwell, 1817, Emily in 1818 and Anne, the baby of the family, in 1820. Fortunately, given the increasingly cramped conditions at home, Mr Brontë was offered the perpetual curacy at Haworth with its larger parsonage.
So it was that in the spring of 1820 the family travelled some six miles across the moors to the village which would be forever linked to their name.