![]() ![]() Of course, Charlotte may have been inspired by Moorseats but the intended location could have been elsewhere in the Peak District. The town of Sheffield is very close to Moorseats (actually about 10 miles away). "Oh, I only came home from S-" (she mentioned the name of a large town some twenty miles distant)… And then there is the nearby town:Ĭhapter 31. The fact that Moorseats is in Derbyshire helps to confirm this. The population here must be thin, and I see no passengers on these roads: they stretch out east, west, north, and south There are great moors behind and on each hand of me there are waves of mountains far beyond that deep valley at my feet. From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see. Four arms spring from its summit: the nearest town to which these point is, according to the inscription, distant ten miles the farthest, above twenty. Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness. The description of Whitcross (where Jane is dropped off from the coach and where she makes her way eventually to Moor House) makes it quite clear that Charlotte based it in Derbyshire:Ĭhapter 28. It was owned by Thomas Eyre and visited by Charlotte with Ellen Nussey. The house of Moorseats, just north of Hathersage, is believed to be the inspiration for Moor House. The building Moorseats Hall in Derbyshire Inspirations ![]()
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