Literary Pilgrimage to Top Withens, Yorkshire (Wuthering Heights)

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Take a look at this photo and this Google map. I believe that the photo was taken from around about the site of Bottom Withens (which I think is at 53.818568, -2.025406 on the map - North East along the Pennine Way from Top Withens - a distance of some 520 metres) as we look. I think that the 520 metre distance makes sense - very much farther apart and, even though they are in a line, they'd hardly be related. Also, assuming perspective is accurate in the engraving, the buildings don't look to be a huge distance apart. In the photo, however, there appears to be some foreshortening, consistent with a zoom lense.

Given that the photo is from a bit closer to Top Withens than the engraving, it's interesting that the current path hooks around to the right behind what I'm assuming to be the ruins of Middle Withens, following almost the same route as the path in the engraving. It's a pity that the photo is narrow and tall as the rise to the right of Top Withens in the engraving is kind of suggested in the photo, but I would have liked to have seen a bit wider view.

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