Coordinates: 53°44′03″N 1°51′15″W / 53.7343°N 1.8543°W / 53.7343; -1.8543 High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c. 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire and demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily Brontë with her description of Wuthering Heights, the house in her eponymous novel,. The building stood just a few miles from Law Hill House, Southowram, where she spent some time as a school mistress.
Read more about High Sunderland Hall: Background, Photos of High Sunderland Hall Circa 1900
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