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Princetown is a town situated on Dartmoor in the county of Devon in England. grid reference SX588736 Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The British Isles consist of Great Britain, Ireland and a number of much smaller surrounding islands. ... Dartmoor is a National Park in the centre of the English county of Devon. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...

Princetown is best known as the site of the notorious Dartmoor Prison. It is the highest town on the moor, and one of the highest in the United Kingdom. The branch railway to the town, closed in 1956, was also the highest railway line in England, its Princetown terminus being 435 metres above sea level. HM Prison Dartmoor is located in Princetown, England, high on Dartmoor, and presents a bleak and formidable sight. ...

Tor Royal Lane leads down from the town to the site of the disused Whiteworks tin mine, which overlooks Fox Tor Mires, the presumed site of the Grimpen Mire to be found in Arthur Conan Doyle's tale The Hound of the Baskervilles. Fox Tor is a relatively minor hill on Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom, but is best known for the swampy land that lies beneath it. ... Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor 1889. ...

North Hessary Tor overlooks the town. The North Hessary Tor Transmitter is a broadcasting facility for FM and TV at North Hessary Tor, just above Dartmoor Prison, in Princetown, Devon, England (grid reference SX578742). ...

Princetown is the most deprived ward in Devon. Since the Home Office changed their rules on where prinson wardens lived much housing became avaiable as the prinson staff moved from the village to live elsewhere. This vacant property was then offered to the disabled, the unemployed and one parent families. With few facilities and little public transport these people have become isolated. Now with the formation of a charity "High Moorland Community Action" this will soon all start to change.