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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish-born doctor and writer, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. In 1901 he spent a fortnight walking Dartmoor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, researching what became The Hound of the Baskervilles, the only Holmes story set on a real, named moor.
Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870-1907) was a Devon-born journalist and editor who grew up on the edge of Dartmoor. In 1901 he told fellow writer Arthur Conan Doyle the moorland legends that became The Hound of the Baskervilles, and guided him around the moor while Doyle researched the book, which Doyle dedicated to him.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, serialised in the Strand Magazine August 1901 to April 1902 and published as a book in March 1902. It is set on and around a fictionalised Dartmoor, drawn from a research visit Doyle made to Princetown and the moor in 1901 with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, to whom the book is dedicated.
Emma Cunis' book retelling ten well-known Dartmoor tales and exploring their real origins and inspirations, illustrated by her aunt Gina Hemery.
Buckfastleigh
The roofless hilltop church of Holy Trinity above Buckfastleigh, burnt out in an arson attack on 20 July 1992, with the Cabell tomb by the porch.
Buckfastleigh
The tomb of Squire Richard Cabell (d. 1677) of Brook Hall, Buckfastleigh, sealed under an iron-barred stone structure locally known as "the Sepulchre." Local legend held that a phantom pack of hounds ran with him across the moor, and the tomb is the leading, though unconfirmed, candidate for the real legend behind Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Moretonhampstead
The village convenience store and post office on Court Street, incorporating the Hound of the Baskervilles gift shop, providing everyday essentials, gifts and postal services...
