The cobbled Yorkshire street foreign tourists can’t get enough of

Haworth is probably the most cosmopolitan place in Yorkshire – between about 9am and 9pm.

The works of sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte have been translated into 60-plus languages and have enchanted readers around the world. That’s not bad for three odd Yorkshire lasses who wrote these now classic novels to amuse themselves as they waited for the internet to be invented.

Logically, fans of Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall visit the sisters’ locale to swallow the landscape and village that inspired them. Even outside peak season you can hear conversations in a wide range of foreign languages as well as non -British English.

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On Tripadvisor, you’ll spot reviews of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, the sisters’ former home, by American, Canadian and Australian visitors. But it’s the Japanese who love the Brontes as much as Yorkshire folk.

The Japanese version of Tripadvisor (thank God for Google Translate) has more than 2,000 reviews of the museum. Alas, YorkshireLive failed to find any Japanese, North American or Australasian Bronte fans when we visited on Wednesday.

We did, however, speak to the Selim Yücel family from Fethiye, Turkey. Dad Ahmet has friends who live in the area and he visits every year.

This time he’s brought his daughter Dem, 15, who loves Jane Eyre, and her younger sister Dolu, 14. Ahmet, 50, says: “It’s beautiful and well preserved. It’s so nice I’ve been coming for 30 years and I’ve brought my daughters for the first time.”

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But now there’s another kind of international tourist in Haworth. I ask a couple of young Chinese students on Haworth’s Main Street if they like the Brontes. They look at me puzzled.

Following a very short and awkward conversation I realise they’re not here as Bronte fans. In fact, I’m not sure they had hitherto heard of the Brontes.

I ascertain they’re from one of the Leeds universities and they’ve come to Haworth because they’ve seen photos of it on social media. I find this odd but apparently it’s pretty common among Generation Z.

And as long as they’re spending money and not peeing in people’s doorways and making a din, who cares?