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History of Dartmoor National Park
History of Dartmoor National Park
Dartmoor forest; Dartmoor prison at Princetown, built during the Napoleonic wars; Conan Doyle's book, The Hound of the Baskervilles featuring Sherlock Holmes is set in foggy Dartmoor.
Tin mining has had an important role in Dartmoor's history. The so-called stannary towns had their own assemblies, laws and courts and there was even a stannary gaol.
Rabbit rearing was important once and there are places still carrying the name of Warren.
More recently the china clay industry provided the raw materials for the Potteries area of Staffordshire.
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