A 100 year old building houses one of the most welcoming of pubs in Keighley, the Dog and Gun Inn in Malsis, which sits on Colne Road.  Close to the Dog and Gun pub, known for its seriously good pub food, is the historic village of Keighley and beyond that some of the better known countryside that is linked to ‘century old’ literary England.

Local mill owners built the Worth Valley Railway which opened in 1867 before Midland Railway took over and begin operating a line between the now connecting towns of Leeds, Bradford, Skipton and Aire Valley.

Many people traveling through the Yorkshire area find a wonderful retreat for lunch in the Dog and Gun pub before they decide to head for Haworth, the village which famously gave birth to the Brontë sisters who wrote and lived beside the pathways they walked in the rambling Yorkshire countryside.

Howarth heralds the sight of the Brontë waterfalls which was once described by Charlotte Brontë as:

“fine indeed; a perfect torrent racing over the rocks, white and beautiful”

The waterfalls lead you to the Top Withens, the inspiration of Heathcliff’s dwelling, and also the setting for Wuthering Heights. The stunning Pennine Way is a fabulous track to follow for breath taking views and at the heart of all this is the famous home of the Brontës, as well as the parsonage where they lived and wrote all their lives, which has now been converted into the Brontë museum.

Emily Brontë famously commented on the Yorkshire moorland setting in which she lived in her famous novel Wuthering Heights, she wrote:

“One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.”