A survey is to be held into the number of visitors who flock into one of the most popular tourist traps in the country.

The probe, to be launched in the summer at the height of the season, is part of a plan to free Haworth, the home of the Bronts, of traffic and parking chaos.

The survey is one of the proposals in the just-published Haworth Travel Plan, which has been spearheaded by the Bront Country Partnership (BCP), a focus group of tourist organisations, commercial and community groups.

The document has been drawn-up by traffic consultants who have visited the 4,000-population village to speak to residents and see the problem for themselves.

The summer survey will attempt to calculate visitor numbers, an age profile, what visitors spend and what locations people are visiting.

It will investigate how visitors are travelling to the Bront shrine, where they come from and what their experience has been.

The plan calls for better management of visitor traffic, especially relating to coaches, some pedestrianisation of the famous cobbled Main Street and better bus links between the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and the top of Main Street.

Graham Mitchell, BCP treasurer, who has been spearheading the travel plan project, said they would be looking to organisations like Bradford Council and West Yorkshire Metro and the parish council to help finance some of the initiatives.

A copy had been presented to Keighley Area Panel for scrutiny and he was due to present the document at a special meeting with Haworth Parish Council in April.

"The most important thing now is that this plan is not put on a shelf and left," he said.

"I want to see people with executive powers, like Bradford Council, take it on board and pick up some of these ideas and run with them to ensure that we see some results.

"This plan is acting as a focus, bringing things to attention within one document -- problems that have been around for a couple of decades."

Bradford councillor Peter Hill, who represents the Worth Valley, said it was a document which had been needed for many years.

"Something needs to be done about managing the visitors to the village, which for many weekends of the year is gridlocked," he said. "It is a victim of its own success.

"We have to make the place more user friendly in traffic terms.

"People are parking all over the place, even in Mytholmes Lane and in the Brow area, some distance away from the Main Street."

He accepted that the problems would not change overnight but the document was a valuable focus on the major problems that needed action.