Haworth is a tourist destination known for its association with the Brontë sisters and the preserved heritage Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

[9] Babbage's inspection uncovered deeply unsanitary conditions, including there being no sewers, excrement flowing down Haworth's streets, waste from slaughterhouses and pigsties being held for months in fenced-in areas, overcrowded and poorly-ventilated housing, and a poorly-oxygenated and overcrowded graveyard that filtered into the village's water supply.

These conditions contributed to an average life expectancy of 25.8 years and 41.6% of the village's residents dying before the age of 6.

Tourism accounts for much of the local economy, with the major attractions being the heritage railway and Brontë Parsonage Museum.

[18] 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.

A modern event organised by the Haworth Traders' Association is "Scroggling the Holly", which takes place in November.

[23] Bands and Morris men lead a procession of children in Victorian costume following the Holly Queen up the cobblestones to a crowning ceremony on the church steps.

[25] The festival has community involvement and uses local professional and semi-professional musicians, artists and performers and a larger name to headline each year.

[28] From 1971 to 1988, 25 and 27 Main Street housed the Haworth Pottery, where Anne Shaw produced hand-thrown domestic stoneware derived from the arts & crafts tradition.

Her husband, Robert Shaw, depicted life (and prominent residents) in the village in the 1970s and 80s, in two collections of satires, The Wrath Valley Anthology, 1981, and Grindley's Bairns, 1988, praised by The Times Literary Supplement.

Top Withens can also be reached by a shorter walking route departing from the nearby village of Stanbury.

They subsequently moved to Hall Green Baptist Church at the junction of Bridgehouse Lane and Sun Street.

[39] The Brontë sisters were born in Thornton near Bradford, but wrote most of their novels while living at Haworth Parsonage when their father was the parson at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels.

In the 19th century, the village and surrounding settlements were largely industrialised, which put it at odds with the popular portrayal in Wuthering Heights, which only bore resemblance to the upper moorland that Emily Brontë was accustomed to.