Throughout this tour, the background has been dimmed to enhance picture radiance.
Most photographs are by the author.
Welcome to the Thorp Green tour. Thorp Green is a small hamlet lying about eight miles north-west of York, and about forty miles east of Haworth. It was at Thorp Green Hall, between the years 1840 and 1845, where Anne worked as governess to the Robinson children. Little Ouseburn being a small village about one and a half miles north of Thorp Green. Several years after leaving Thorp Green, she used the area, some of its inhabitants, and her experiences there as models for a large section of her novel, Agnes Grey .