FAMOUS acting couple Prunella Scales and Timothy West stepped onto dry land to visit Haworth for their latest television series.

The pair visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum to film a sequence for the latest season of their popular series Great Canal Journeys on Sunday.

The Channel 4 show, which is now in its fifth series, is expected to screened before the end of the year.

Prunella Scales, who has a CBE, is best known for her role as Basil Fawlty’s wife, Sybil, in the classic BBC comedy Fawlty Towers. She gained a BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett’s TV play A Question Of Attribution in 1991. From early roles in the Pride and Prejudice and Room at the Top, she went on to star in TV comedy series like After Henry, Smelling of Roses and Mapp & Lucia.

Timothy West was born in Bradford and worked as an office furniture salesman and recording technician before becoming an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956. He became renowned for his stage performances in the late 1950s and 1960s.