It was located in the village of Cowan Bridge in the English county of Lancashire , where it was attended by the Brontë sisters , two of whom fatally contracted tuberculosis while at the school and died .
It was located in the village of Cowan Bridge in the English county of Lancashire , where it was attended by the Brontë sisters in the 1820s . 
 Two of the Brontes fatally contracted tuberculosis while at the school and died .