The book Dartmoor is the setting for Arthur Conon Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles, with Sherlock Holmes.
The town Moretonhampstead, near North Bovey, has the longest one-word place name in England.
The ruins With over 5,000 hut circles, Dartmoor contains the largest concentration of Bronze Age remains in the UK.
The TV show BBC sitcom Jam and Jeruselum, starring French and Saunders and Joanna Lumley, is filmed in North Tawton, nearby.
The castle Castle Drogo was the last fort to be built in Britain.