Place
The Grimpen Mire
Also known as the great mire, the great Grimpen Mire, Grimpen Mire.
The great bog at the heart of the moor, shown to Watson by Stapleton, who watches a moor pony craning and writhing as it is sucked screaming under the bright green sedge. A false step there means death to man or beast, the worse after the autumn rains, and yet Stapleton boasts that by certain complex landmarks he alone can win his way to the islands at its heart, where the rare plants and butterflies grow.
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
On the night moor the dreadful howl of the hound seems to roll up out of the mire's direction.
Chapter X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
After days of pouring rain it lies swollen and murderous, the firm uplands themselves turning to morass; Watson reflects that God help any who wander into it now.
Chapter XI. The Man on the Tor
At sunset, from the stranger's stone hut, its distant pools gleam back the scarlet and gold of the west, beautiful and sinister across the waste.
Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
His end is read in it. No footprints survive the oozing mud, and somewhere in its foul slime the cold-hearted schemer lies forever buried; on the island the searchers find the kennel-chain, a heap of gnawed bones, and the tin of luminous paste.
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