parsonage

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Until very recently, so did the British architect Ben Pentreath, who with his husband, plantsman Charlie McCormick, transformed a parsonage garden in the Bride Valley into an Instagram sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

In 1820, the Brontes moved to the parsonage in Howarth, where the sisters wrote masterpieces including Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2023

“If something happened to me, my wife would not only lose her husband but she’d lose her house, because that house goes with my job,” he said of the parsonage.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022

After three days of his absence, Mrs. Cobb appeared at the parsonage to ask if he had been sick.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt