Local legend claims that the dead pear tree in the garden was given by an infatuated member of the Heaton family to Emily Brontë.

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A historic manor house which may have helped inspire Wuthering Heights is on the market for £950,000. Grade II listed Ponden Hall is less than two miles away from the picturesque Yorkshire town of Haworth, where the Brontë sisters grew up with their brother Branwell.
Emily Brontë, who visited the house with Branwell to use its extensive library, is traditionally said to have based Thrushcross Grange, the grand home of the wealthy Linton family in Wuthering Heights, on the property. Read more on the blog and newspaper

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The biographer Winifred Gérin has suggested that Ponden Hall is more likely to have been the model for Wildfell Hall, the old mansion in Anne Bronte's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.