FAMOUS acting couple Prunella Scales and Timothy West stepped onto dry land to visit Haworth for their latest TV series.

The pair visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum on Sunday to film a sequence for the latest season of their popular series Great Canal Journeys.

The Channel 4 show, which is now in its fifth series, is expected to be screened on TV before the end of the year.

Prunella Scales CBE is an actress best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife, Sybil, in the classic BBC comedy Fawlty Towers.

She gained a BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's TV play A Question Of Attribution in 1991.

From early roles in Pride And Prejudice and Room At The Top, she went on to star in TV comedy series like After Henry, Smelling Of Roses and Mapp & Lucia.

Timothy West was born in Bradford and worked as an office furniture salesman and recording technician before becoming an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956.

He first became renowned for his stage performances in the late 50s and 60s.