Wycoller Hall.

The remains of Wycoller Hall (16th Century) in Wycoller, North-West England.
Wycoller is a village in the parish of Trawden Forest, Pendle, Lancashire, UK. It is located 3 miles east of Colne near to the junction of the Lancashire, West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire borders. The village dates back to before the 10th century BC and central to the village are the ruins of Wycoller Hall. The village is a conservation area and is closed to outside traffic.
Wycoller Hall was the inspiration for "Ferndean Manor" in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre". The Brontës lived in the nearby village of Haworth and both Charlotte and her sister Emily visited Wycoller on their frequent walks across the moors. One example of evidence to support the belief that Wycoller Hall was Ferndean Manor comes from a report of the members of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society visit to Wycoller in May 1901.

"The ladies were pleased to hear that some old folks had been spoken to who had remembered the Misses Brontë coming down from Barnside; also that Wycoller was the original "Fern Dean" in Jane Eyre and that the Heights above were Wuthering Heights".

It is known that Charlotte used to visit old halls in the area; it is well documented that she stayed with Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth in Gawthorpe Hall in 1850. Wycoller Hall was used to illustrate the cover of the 1898 edition of Jane Eyre.
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