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