Bed & Breakfast through the seasons
High above Stanbury, on the edge of the moor the Brontes knew and loved, we overlook Ponden Reservoir, where no two days are the same, but every day is beautiful.
Choose from one of three beautiful, historic rooms
Now you can share some of that Bronte experience by staying in one of our three unique rooms.
Meet Your Hosts
We are Steve Brown and Julie Akhurst, and we’ve lived at Ponden Hall since 1998, moving in exactly a month before we got married.
Testimonials
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“Ponden Hall is surrounded by the beautiful, rolling greenery of the Yorkshire countryside. I visited for a tour around the hall whose stunning architecture dates back to the 1500s. Ponden Hall is mindful of its literary and historical traditions and provides a pleasant and truly memorable experience. I’m sure I will be returning in the future.”
John
Everyone should visit Ponden Hall. For me, the initial draw was the house’s literary ties, and it didn’t disappoint there: there are period details everywhere to stir up the imagination.
What really surprised me was the warmth of the place – it was nothing like the forbidding Wuthering Heights depicted in the novel! I couldn’t think of a more welcoming, cosy and comfortable place to spend a hard-earned break.
Faith & Owen
Blog
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Ponden Hall makes it into The Times…! By Ponden Hall / 21st July, 2016
We can sometimes miss the fact that we are appearing in the national prints! Which is why we were delighted that our Peat Loft guests Stuart and Pat emailed us a copy of last Satur
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More verses from the Ponden poet… By Ponden Hall / 16th May, 2016
Our guest Jim returned on Saturday night for Haworth’s 40s weekend with his wife Caroline and son Damon, and left us another verse.
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Share a spooky Brontë Hallowe’en with us and actress Caroline Lamb… By Ponden Hall / 27th October, 2015
There are just a couple of tickets left for a ghostly Brontë evening this Hallowe’en, Saturday October 31, at 7pm, here at Ponden Hall.
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Inspired to poetry! – A tribute from one of our lovely guests By Ponden Hall / 25th October, 2015
Jim Murphy from Wigan stayed last night with his wife Caroline and son Damon in the Heaton Room, and as he left handed me a folded piece of lined paper.
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The Edwardian balloonist who plummeted to her death in our back field By Ponden Hall / 18th March, 2015
An odd thing about the hamlet of Ponden, is that, although tiny, it seems to have been involved in one way or another with many of the major happenings of the area.
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The risky business of a coffee-and-walnut cake… By Ponden Hall / 26th January, 2015
Photo: courtesy Jayne Clinton
Coffee cakes are a love them/hate them thing – I rarely make one for guests, since those who dislike coffee flavouring really dislike it – -
Swedish lavender dreams By Ponden Hall / 19th November, 2014
As part of my ongoing excursions into Scandinavian cookery I made a plate of these scented, crispy lavender biscuits this morning.
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Seeing the Hall through a photographer’s eyes By Ponden Hall / 17th October, 2014
Photo: Courtesy Anneleen Lindsay www.anneleenphotography.com
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The best heather ever By Ponden Hall / 25th August, 2014
We got back from a week’s holiday in the early hours yesterday, to discover that in our absence the moors had exploded in colour! I don’t know whether it’s last
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Summer’s creamiest, lemoniest cordial By Ponden Hall / 29th June, 2014
Time works in strange and contradictory ways. Every year it seems as though we are waiting and waiting for summer to arrive.
