Haworth to Top Withens and back. Circular route (approx. 8 ½ miles)

1. Start at Weavers. Walk across the Carpark to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, go up the steps and turn left.

2. Go down the pathway past the Old School rooms on your left and turn to the right through a gate into the churchyard.

3. There is a signpost: "Public Footpath to Penistone Hill and Oxenhope". Go through the churchyard, down steps and turn right. Go through a gate on to a footpath, allotments on your left, and follow it to a junction with a path on the right.

4. Follow this path uphill until you reach the road.

5. Cross the road and turn half-left on the well-trodden track, heading out onto Haworth Moor and Penistone Hill.

6. When you reach a fork in the track, keep right. Cross another gravel track by the stone sculptures of books half buried in the ground and continue the track you’re on, crossing over two other dirt tracks. Just past the picnic tables a signpost points right by a large boulder.

7. Turn right and walk down to the road.

8. Cross to the signpost on the other side of the road. Some 50m further is a broad, stony track where there is a farm gate and a cattle grid with a kissing gate between them. Go through and follow this track with the wall on your right for over 2km. The wall ends and is replaced by lower, tumbledown ones.

9. Remain on this path and continue down some steps to the stream, where you can see the waterfalls.

10. In front of you is the Brontë bridge.

11. Cross the bridge and climb the steep bank to your right up to the to a kissing gate.

12. From here the path curves up left. Keep left and walk alongside the wall. The path joins another wall and you have to go through a further kissing gate in a corner.

13. It leads on directly to another kissing gate. Keep on this path.

14. You pass a signpost where paths meet before crossing two streams at their junction by stepping stones.

15. Continue up the path to reach a wider paved path by some ruins and a signpost.

16. Turn left and in a few minutes you will reach Top Withens.

17. From Top Withens retrace your steps to waymark 16.

18. Instead of turning to the right and back the way you came, stay on this paved path, which is part of the Pennine Way. After about 1.5km, at the end of some farm buildings, the track divides.

19. Take the left fork. The path is wide and gravelled. You come to a cattle grid.

20. Continue ahead over the cattle grid. Shortly after this the track is surfaced and leads down to a road junction in the village of Stanbury.

21. The large boulder has the village name on it. Continue through the 20mph zone, passing a school, several pubs and lots of buildings with character. At the far end of the village you come to the 40mph signs.

22. Take the turning on the right and cross the reservoir. At the very far end on the left is the access road to waterworks.

23. A path leads from the access road, Yorkshire waterworks on your left, going uphill to eventually join a road. Turn left when you reach this road and use a footpath on top of an embankment on the left of the road. Another road joins from the right and you then reach a T-junction. Follow the road towards Haworth and houses start to appear.

24. You’ll see parked cards in a layby on your right, just before this there is a very small gate into the field on your right.

25. Go through and follow the path which goes to the left and is partly paved with slabs. It leads to a small gate in a corner.

26. The path continues along the back of houses and allotments and brings you to the cobbled street by the Brontë Museum.