The Pennine village where the Brontës lived and wrote

Villagers typically subsistence farmed a few acres, often 'take-in'
from the moors, which they combined with hand-loom weaving or wool-combing. But
worsted weaving on a loom in your front room was already on its way out by the
time the Bronte family arrived in the village in 1821; new water-powered mills
began appearing along the River Worth from 1790, and the economy began shifting
from domestic to industrial.
When they had spare time people tended to devote it to religious
worship. Baptist and Wesleyan chapels flourished in the village, and together
with the Anglican church, provided the village with education and a social
life.
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