The Hound of the Baskervilles

After I re-read the Arthur Conan Doyle classic, Hound of the Baskervilles, I became enamored with the area of England that the story is reported to occur. It turns out that there actually is a Baskerville Hall, although the Baskerville family, friends of Doyle, asked the location to be changed in the book do the impending fame.

Doyle spent some time with the Baskervilles and subsequently became inspired to pen a Sherlock Holmes tale that takes place in the gloomy surrounding moor. The concept of a moor is not commonly known to Americans, although it is described in the novel as a cross between a bog, swamp and scrub land. I’m sure many British people would have a much better explanation. Interestingly enough, Holmes has a much lesser part in this story than in most Holmes adventures, and as always with Doyle’s works probably lifts heavily from his own experiences.

At any rate, people traveling to London often go to visit the fictitious home of Sherlock Holmes, but I wonder if anyone goes to the moor? Since the book is often cited as being a favorite story, I wonder if there is tourism surrounding the book.