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The Black prisoner-leader, usually identified with "King Dick," whose self-governing block at Dartmoor Prison ran its own theatre, boxing school and gambling operation in 1814-1815.
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.
Simon Dell's account of the 1932 Dartmoor Prison riot, regarded as the definitive record of the event.
A convict escaped from the war prison on Dartmoor is nursed back to health by Eve; as he recovers, the watcher becomes the watched.
On the moor around Vixen Tor and the Walkham, a mother is brought to give evidence against her own son, a poacher, and to see him sent to prison.
At Fox Tor Farm near Princetown, Grace Malherb, daughter of the hot-tempered Maurice Malherb, loves Cecil Stark, an American held in the war prison on Dartmoor.
A modest granite outcrop near North Hessary Tor, with a cleft and a lone hawthorn tree on its edge.
Princetown, Tavistock
A quiet memorial to American and French prisoners of war held on Dartmoor during the Napoleonic Wars and later conflicts.
