Top Withens in England

This small West Yorkshire farmhouse was built some time before 1567, and initially consisted of a single farm (known as Withens Farm) before being expanded into three farms known as Top, Middle, and Bottom Withens in 1591. Centuries later, the farm was still in use in the 1840s when Yorkshire native Emily Brontë wrote her novel "Wuthering Heights", initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. In 1872, publisher George Smith wrote a letter to Brontë's friend Ellen Nussey asking for information about the inspiration for various locations in Brontë's novels, which led to Top Withens bei...