Dartmoor National Park is a low-lying region in the west of Devon in South West England (see South West England). “If reason and life are dear to you, stay away from peat bogs,” who didn’t get goosebumps with fear when reading this phrase in A. Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. Naturally, admirers of Sherlock Holmes are not going to stay away from the swamps, but on the contrary, they strive closer to the scene of the novel. In England, detectives by Edgar Wallace are popular, the action of which also takes place in these parts, which look so harsh and primitive. About a thousand square kilometers are occupied by granite massifs in which powerful weathering forces created "tors" (tors) - granite towers that look similar the work of fairy giants.
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On one of these pillars, Dr. Watson saw Holmes. The mountain swamp retains rainwater and feeds numerous rivers and streams that flow down to the coast. For some reason, it was here that the prehistoric inhabitants of the British Isles liked to settle, so stone circles, dolmens, druid stones and burial mounds are simply found here in abundance. The monstrous Mr. Stapleton knowingly disguised himself as a naturalist - nature lovers are attracted here by local mosses, heathers, swamp grasses and reeds. Curlews and plovers nest in damp lowlands. Wild ponies, cows and white sheep roam among the rocks.