Place
Dartmoor
Also known as the moor.
The wild moorland district of Devonshire where Dr. Mortimer keeps his scattered country practice, named in his medical record as Grimpen, Dartmoor, Devon. It is the remote sort of country a doctor crosses on foot, far from London and the parishes around the village of Grimpen.
Chapter II. The Curse of the Baskervilles
The old Baskerville manuscript sets its legend here, on the moor three leagues wide that a doomed maiden once fled across and where the wicked Hugo met his terrible end.
Chapter III. The Problem
Holmes spreads an ordnance map of the district and finds it desolate and lifeless, dotted with only a few scattered dwellings and two moorland farms, with Baskerville Hall at its centre and the great convict prison of Princetown fourteen miles off.
Chapter VI. Baskerville Hall
Watson crosses it for the first time at dusk, a bleak waste of russet and olive slopes sprinkled with giant boulders, where mounted soldiers watch the roads for an escaped convict.
Chapter VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House
Stapleton shows Watson its hidden dangers, above all the great Grimpen Mire that swallows ponies whole, and the homes of the prehistoric people whose stone huts still ring the hillsides.
Chapter VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
Watson writes that the spirit of the moor, its vastness and the graves and monoliths of its forgotten folk, sinks ever deeper into his soul the longer he stays.
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
By night it becomes a place of dread, where a long howl rolls across the dark and a tall, silent figure is glimpsed against the moon on a distant tor.
Chapter XI. The Man on the Tor
Watson searches it hut by hut among the stone burrows on the hillsides, hunting the unknown man who lurks somewhere among them.
Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
A dense white fog rolls off the mire and across the moor, turning the final night's ambush blind and perilous.
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