Article: HOLIDAY HOT SPOTS: That's Moor like it!(Features)

Byline: DENNIS EDENSOR

SHERLOCK Holmes's sidekick reckoned Dartmoor gave him the shivers.

But Dr Watson was hunting the Hound of the Baskervilles at the time - and murder mysteries need a bit of bleakness and drizzle.

You don't get the same atmosphere of menace from the sound of birdsong above golden gorse and hedgerows teeming with bluebells - which was the sunny scene greeting my family and me on a spring visit to Devon's wide open spaces.

True, ...

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