THE makers of a planned new documentary series exploring some of the real-life locations which inspired the Bronte sisters' classic novels have released a trailer for their production.
The short film provides a preview of the series which follows Oxenhope residents Ian Howard and Josh Chapman – grandson of the first female curator of the Bronte Parsonage Museum – in their hunt for the atmospheric spots which the novel was based on.
The trailer, produced by documentary maker Oliver Chapman, who is Josh's brother, can now be viewed on the Wuthering Hikes Twitter page.
Mr Howard and Josh Chapman say their own research and the information contained within the novels themselves suggests previously unrecognised locations around Haworth inspired the books' content.
Mr Howard, of Oxenhope, began investigating the topic more than a year ago, helped by Josh Chapman who provided him with the memoirs of his grandmother, Joanna Hutton, the first female curator of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in the 1960s.
Included amongst the memoirs was an unpublished manuscript by a woman called Dorothy Van Ghent. She died in 1968 and had also been trying to identify the actual locations associated with the Brontes' novels.
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