Wild wintry WALKS
Dartmoor
Hound of the Baskervilles Trail
The new six-mile Hound of the Baskervilles Trail on the wild and windswept High Moor area of Dartmoor National Park is at its most atmospheric in winter. It takes in the moorland, mires and local legends that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes mystery and reveals some of Dartmoor’s uniquely beautiful landscapes. Start at the visitor centre in Princetown, wherevillain, and the boggy expanse of Fox Tor Mires, better known as the book’s bleak Grimpen Mire. The walk’s final miles reveal typically sweeping Dartmoor views stretching towards Bellever Forest, Wistman’s Wood and Hay Tor.
