THE ENTIRE production crew for the BBC’s new Brontë film have visited the family’s historic home.

Writer and director Sally Wainwright and her crew toured the Brontë Parsonage Museum while on a scouting trip around locations.

The crew, along with the cast, will return this summer to film outdoor scenes both in Haworth Main Street and at a specially-built replica of the parsonage on nearby Penistone Hill.

Specialists creating props, costumes and sets for the film have previously made individual visits to the parsonage to quiz the Brontë Society’s experts and examine artefacts.

They have even measured and photographed rooms in the parsonage so they can accurately build and furnish the interior sets at a studio in Manchester.

Museum spokesman Rebecca Yorke said staff had been working closely with the BBC production team for the past few months.

She said: “They’ve have been viewing items in our collections that they want to recreate as props. We’ve had particular crew members with responsibility for producing sets and costumes.

“The latest visit was the whole production team of about 30 people while they were doing a recce of all the locations. They were also visiting the set being built on Penistone Hill. There was the writer-director Sally Wainwright and the producer.”

Sally has written the 120-minute-long To Walk Invisible as part of commemorations of the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth.

Sally, creator of hit BBC series Happy Valley and Last Tango In Halifax, has set out to tell the story behind three remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.

Brontë Society members and officials were among those who attended a special event at Westminster Abbey last month to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë.

About 80 invited guests, including the deputy left tenant of West Yorkshire, David Pearson, attended a service at Poet’s Corner in the abbey.

There were readings of poems by the Brontë sister’s siblings, including Confidence by Anne, No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily, and Life by Charlotte.

The guests then retired to the Churchill Rooms at the House Of Commons for light refreshments.

Rebecca Yorke said: “There was a similar service for the centenary in Haworth Church in 1916.”

Although none of the Brontë family are buried at Poet’s Corner, there is a memorial plaque to the sisters.