HAWORTH features in a new book of images captured by photographer Doug Kennedy.

Yorkshire Landscapes is full of colour shots taken across the county, accompanied by informative text.

In Haworth, St Michael and All Angels Church is pictured looking serene, with dappled sunshine on its clock tower.

Doug draws on descriptions used by the Bronte Society to depict the community at the time of the legendary literary sisters – “a crowded industrial town, polluted, smelly and wretchedly unhygienic. Although perched on the edge of open country, high up on the edge of Haworth Moor, the death rate was as high as anything in London or Bradford, with 41 per cent of children failing even to reach their sixth birthday”.

Clearly taken with the present-day village, he writes of it as “odour-free and delightful to explore with trails that visit the church and the museum, and which climb through the lanes onto the open moors”.

He captures bustling Main Street, the much-photographed tourist hub with its gift shops and cafes.

Doug grew up in Richmond, south-west London, and now lives in Buckinghamshire.

It was while he was a biology student at university in Sheffield that he fell in love with the Yorkshire Dales and the county as a whole.

In a varied career he’s been a biology teacher, writer, classical guitarist and, latterly, computer programmer.

His love of nature has taken him out walking through Britain, Ireland, the USA, France and Australia. He is now a talented landscape and nature photographer as well as a campaigner on environmental issues.

His first book of photographs, Chiltern Landscapes, was self-published in 2011. His work was subsequently picked up by Windgather Press, an imprint of Oxbow Books, who published his images of English villages, the North Downs, Norfolk and now Yorkshire.

Yorkshire Landscapes reflects a county of contrasts, including the towering limestone cliffs of Malham Cove, the viaduct across the River Nidd in Knaresborough and a view of York Minster across jumbled rooftops.

Doug also visits Ribblehead Viaduct, built in the 1870s by more than 1,000 men who lived with their families in temporary villages nearby.

The photographer has visited the region in all weathers and seasons, providing further contrast.

And he has sprinkled his book with occasional photographs of birds, plants and animals he encountered as he journeyed across the region.

Spread across two pages, there’s a panoramic view of Ilkley, from its famous moor, taken on a clear day when distant moors stretch as far as the eye can see.

There's also a view over Wharfedale from above Otley, with a tapestry of fields and woodland.

* Yorkshire Landscapes: A Photographic Tour of England’s Largest County, is published by Windgather Press, priced £16.99.