Entrance drive to Baskerville Hall Hotel, Clyro Court
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The photograph on this page of Entrance drive to Baskerville Hall Hotel, Clyro Court by Jaggery as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Jaggery Taken: 19 Aug 2012
Viewed from near the A438. Now a hotel, Baskerville Hall was built in 1839 by Thomas Mynors Baskerville for his second wife, Elizabeth. The Baskerville crest is on the entrance gates. Later in the 19th century, Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a friend of the Baskervilles, often came to stay here. He learnt of the local legend of the hound of the Baskervilles. One version of the story is that on nearby Hergest Ridge he translated this into perhaps the most famous case for his celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. At the request of the family, the fictional Baskervilles were located in Devon "to ward off tourists". After the Second World War the house was used as a school, then a hotel and health farm. In 1984, the present owner took over and undertook extensive restoration work before the building reopened as an hotel.
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