Oblique aerial view, taken using a drone, showing North Lees Hall and the surrounding landscape from the south-east

Date:
29 Jan 2025
Location:
North Lees Hall, Outseats, Hathersage, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire
Reference:
DP486573
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

North Lees Hall is thought to have inspired Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) in the summer of 1845 when she was staying with her friend Ellen Nussey at the vicarage in Hathersage, providing the model for Mr Rochester’s Thornfield Hall in her first and most famous novel Jane Eyre (1847).

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/28716 North Lees Hall, Hathersage; within the Volume: VF000603 Women's History Month; within the Series: HEC01/144 Women's History Month; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Bull, Alun: Historic England

Keywords

Tudor Tower House, Women's History