At the tourist office–visitor center, displays include those on the moor's archaeology and wildlife, as well as a children's discovery zone.
The building used to be the Duchy Hotel; one former guest was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who went on to write The Hound of the Baskervilles. Dartmoor lore recounts that local man Henry Baskerville took the novelist on a carriage tour, and the brooding landscape he encountered, coupled with legends of huge phantom dogs, inspired the thriller.
