Charlotte Bronte stayed at Hathersage Church Vicarage for three weeks in the summer of 1845, the year before she started to write Jane Eyre. So she would have been very aware of the chime of the church clock, the sound Jane Eyre hears that draws her to 'Morton'.Charlotte Bronte walked up to the moors and also visited North Lees Hall, then occupied by Mary Eyre and her family. There are Eyre family graves in the churchyard. Many believe Hathersage was the 'Morton' of Jane Eyre and that North Lees Hall was the model for 'Thornfield'.
