Brian Wilks has written to the Telegraph about the planned wind farm on the moors:

Patrick Bronte

 

SIR – Patrick Brontë, the father of the Brontë sisters, would not agree that Brontë country is no longer worth visiting (Letters, May 1) because of wind turbines.

Throughout his 40 years as chairman of the parish council in the first half of the 19th century he encouraged innovation, the piping of drinking water and the cleaning up of open sewers – all “modern” improvements opposed by interested local mill owners.

Haworth Moor is a large open space. There is much in Haworth to attract the tourist – not least the chance to reflect on the improvements encouraged by its parson that turned the stinking slum township into a more habitable space.

Wind turbines would have intrigued Patrick Brontë as examples of what he termed “our scientific age”. Telegraph.co.uk