Jane Eyre: locations

Northern England

• Gateshead HallScene

  The Reed family’s fictional mansion, where the orphaned Jane spends an unhappy childhood and is confined in the red-room. She later returns to attend the dying Mrs Reed.

• Lowood InstitutionScene

  The fictional charity school to which Jane is sent. She befriends Helen Burns, endures Mr Brocklehurst’s regime and eventually becomes a teacher there.

• Thornfield HallScene

  Mr Rochester’s fictional country house, where Jane serves as Adèle’s governess, falls in love with Rochester and discovers Bertha Mason after the interrupted wedding.

• MillcoteScene

  The fictional market town near Thornfield. Jane arrives here before entering Rochester’s household and later visits it with Rochester.

• WhitcrossScene

  The fictional remote crossroads where the destitute Jane is set down after fleeing Thornfield; she wanders on the surrounding moors.

• Moor HouseScene

  The fictional home of Diana, Mary and St John Rivers, who shelter Jane after her flight from Thornfield; it is also called Marsh End.

• MortonScene

  The fictional village near Moor House where Jane teaches at a school established by St John Rivers.

• Ferndean ManorScene

  Rochester’s secluded fictional woodland house. Jane finds him living here after the destruction of Thornfield, and they marry.

• BrocklebridgeMentioned

  A fictional place near Lowood, visited by pupils and associated with the school’s local communications and supplies.