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Dartmoor Books & Films

Detectives & Heroic Horses

Dartmoor is famously the setting for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles, which builds on the local legend of the Devil hunting with a pack of phantom hounds.

Michael Morpurgo’s WWI book War Horse – turned into a film by Steven Spielberg – also centres on the moor.

Tracking down Dartmoor’s book and film locations is a fun way to explore – these links will help:

Dartmoor & War Horse

Dartmoor War Horse Walk (3.5 miles) pdf

Dartmoor in Books

Baskerville Walk

Dartmoor Culture

Text © Belinda Dixon

Image by Dartmoor National Park Authority