Based on a local legend of a spectral hound that haunted Dartmoor in Devonshire, England, the story is set in the moors at Baskerville Hall and the nearby Grimpen Mire, and the action takes place mostly at night, when the terrifying hound howls for blood.

Is Baskerville a real place?

It has also been claimed that Baskerville Hall is based on a property in Mid Wales, built in 1839 by one Thomas Mynors Baskerville. The house was formerly named Clyro Court and was renamed Baskerville Hall towards the end of the last century.

Where is the real Baskerville Hall?

Clyro Court, Hay-on-Wye, Powys HR3 5LE. In 1901, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, penned his classic tale of supernatural horror, The Hound Of The Baskervilles.