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==Economy== [[Image:Bronte Parsonage Museum.JPG|thumb|[[Brontë Parsonage Museum]]]] Tourism now accounts for much of the local economy, though the [[River Worth]] flowing through the village powered large textile mills providing much employment and later the major attractions being the [[Keighley and Worth Valley Railway|heritage railway]] and [[Brontë Parsonage Museum]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Winn|first1=Christopher|title=I never knew that about Yorkshire|date=2010|publisher=Ebury|location=London|isbn=978-0-09-193313-5|pages=121–123}}</ref> In Haworth, there are tea rooms, souvenir and antiquarian bookshops, restaurants, pubs and hotels, including the Black Bull, where Branwell Brontë's decline into alcoholism and opium addiction allegedly began.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dewhirst|first1=Ian|title=The Black Bull in Haworth just after the Brontes|url=http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/dewhirst1/10365160.The_Black_Bull_in_Haworth_just_after_the_Brontes/|access-date=27 March 2018|work=Keighley News|date=18 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Jordison|first1=Sam|title=The Brontës are alive and unwell in Haworth|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/jun/10/brontes-alive-unwell-haworth|access-date=27 March 2018|work=The Guardian|date=10 June 2009}}</ref> Haworth is a base for exploring [[Brontë Country]], while still being close to the major cities of [[Bradford]] and [[Leeds]]. On 22 November 2002, Haworth was granted [[Fairtrade Village]] status.<ref>{{cite news |work=Telegraph & Argus |url=http://archive.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/2002/12/14/118222.html |title=Fair traders win award |access-date=24 September 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211132050/http://archive.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/2002/12/14/118222.html |archive-date=11 February 2009 }}</ref> On 21 October 2005, Haworth Fairtrade officially signed an agreement to twin with [[Machu Picchu]] in [[Peru]].<ref name="Peru twin">{{cite news|work=Telegraph & Argus|url=http://archive.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/2005/10/28/181968.html|title=Andes show boosts International link|access-date=24 September 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211132100/http://archive.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/2005/10/28/181968.html|archive-date=11 February 2009 }}</ref>
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