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Emerald Fennell’s new film version of Wuthering Heights, led by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, reframes the Brontë classic and brings the Yorkshire moors back into focus. Ahead of the movie’s February release, fans can now apply to sleep in a recreated room from the production and walk the landscapes that inspired the novel.
A fresh, partial reimagining
Fennell describes the project as a loose reworking of Emily Brontë’s tale, centring on the volatile bond between Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Robbie and Elordi play the adult lovers, while Owen Cooper and Charlotte Mellington appear as their younger selves. The cast also includes Hong Chau as narrator Nelly Dean, Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton and Alison Oliver as Isabella Linton.
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The production emphasises the characters’ childhoods as much as their adult obsessions. Filming took place in West Yorkshire early in 2025, with several outdoor scenes shot across locations associated with the Brontës’ work.
Inside Cathy’s bedroom
A full-scale replica of Cathy’s Thrushcross Grange bedroom was reconstructed for the shoot and is now installed in the grounds of Holdsworth House in Halifax. The set aims to evoke the Linton family’s elegance: a silk-canopied bed, an ornate dressing table and layered period detailing.
Design choices in the film carry symbolic weight. The bedroom was styled by Cathy’s husband in the story and, on-screen, the walls were painted to mirror the actress’s skin tone in a specific Pantone shade. Vein-like markings on the panelling are said to deepen as the film progresses, a visual device intended to reflect Cathy’s intensity.
Airbnb has partnered to offer three couples the chance to stay in the recreated room and join a programme of moorland activities timed around the film’s release, including a horseback ride across the moors, a Yorkshire-themed afternoon tea and an evening meal inspired by the movie.
Filming sites and Brontë country
Beyond the studio replica, much of the production returned to the moorland settings that shaped Brontë’s imagination. Scenes were shot at places such as Stoodley Pike and Bridestones Moor, and the cast were based for a time in West Yorkshire during filming.
Visiting the area brings the novel’s atmosphere into sharp relief. The region known as Brontë Country centres on the village of Haworth and its surrounding moorland. Local paths and ruins have long been linked to the book’s locations.
Walking the moors
I decided to explore those landscapes myself, setting out with my husband, Ryan, on the 4.5-mile Brontë Connection Walk across Haworth Moor. The trail is moderate in length but the terrain is exposed and often unforgiving.
Wind and low visibility are commonplace. Stone farmhouses crouch into the hillside, dry-stone walls lean under the weather, and lone trees stand stripped against the sky. At the Nab, a stony headland, the moors feel particularly ghostly — a setting not far removed from moments in the novel.
Higher up, we reached Top Withens, a crumbling farmhouse long associated with the book’s Wuthering Heights. The land opens into peat and heather; mist hangs low and the only sounds are the call of grouse and the roar of the wind. Crossing from Top Withens toward Ponden Hall — identified with Thrushcross Grange — the route becomes boggy and pathless, suggestive of the emotional and physical distance between the story’s estates.
Our walk finished at Ponden Kirk, known in the novel as Penistone Crags, where the views sweep across valleys and distant villages on a clear day.
Haworth village and a cosy evening
After about three hours on the moors, we returned to Haworth’s Main Street. Although the Brontë Parsonage Museum was closed by then, the village offered old-fashioned sweet shops, galleries and independent stores, as well as a selection of pubs and intimate eateries.
We stopped at The Hawthorn, a small inn tucked beside the cobbles. The room felt warm and welcoming after the cold, with fairy lights and an open fire. We began with cocktails — the Cherry Elixir proved popular — and shared a hearty meal: Swaledale lamb leg steak with pickled salad and bacon, mashed potato with Café de Paris butter, and a bottle of Pech Sirech Malbec. Dessert was a shared sticky toffee pudding with caramel sauce and clotted-cream ice cream, eaten by candlelight.
How to apply
Anyone wishing to request the overnight stay can do so from February 20 by visiting airbnb.com/WutheringHeightsMovie. The experience is free; three couples will be chosen to attend across several days. Each selected couple will receive a three-night stay between February 27 and March 4, with meals included.
Travel to the stay is not covered and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
