A wild, hilly moorland region in southwestern England known for its bleak landscape and the famous Dartmoor prison.
From Old English 'Dart' (a river name) combined with 'moor' (open uncultivated land), a specific geographic location that became a proper noun.
Dartmoor inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' partly because the landscape is genuinely eerie and legendlike—the moor's fog, wild ponies, and isolation made it the perfect Gothic setting.
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