Sherlock Holmes

Museum is situated at the northern end of Baker Street, a minute's walk from Baker Street Tube Station. It is a Grade II Listed lodging house. Holmes' apartment, comprising 2 rooms, is on the first floor. Large new souvenir shop, antique and ephemera sales on the ground floor. The entire second and third floors and attic contain the new exhibition area, featuring several life-size wax figures from the more exciting and best known Sherlock Holmes adventures. London's Baker Street was the home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, and it's here that Holmes buffs will find a statue and museum dedicated to the Victorian crime fighter. Even more fun is exploring the landscapes that inspired him. Try donning a deerstalker hat on a wild winter's day on Dartmoor in Devon, the setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles. The South Downs, where Holmes' rural retreat was located, are an easy day trip from London, or a stop here on route to Brighton. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle known for creating Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous fictional detectives, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1855, and studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Here he met Dr Joseph Bell, one of his lecturers, who relied only on observation, logic and deduction and diagnosis. This was the persona for Sherlock Holmes. In 1887, and now a doctor in practice, Conan Doyle published a Study in Scarlet. It was to be the start of 60 adventures for Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson, which would involve three other novels, and five volumes of short stories.

After a long stay in Dartmoor, Devon in 1900, Conan Doyle wrote the novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was much influenced by local folklore about an escaped convict, an inhospitable manor and huge hound. Today, Dartmoor is still one of Britain's most dramatic landscapes, which is popular for cycling, walking, horse riding and other outdoor pursuits.

Many other places in Britain were mentioned in his stories such as Windlesham near Crowborough in Sussex and lived there until his death. Today, the South Downs Way, gives a great opportunity to enjoy the whole of the Downs area and is perfect for cycling and walking.

Norfolk and Suffolk also were settings for some of his adventures. In The Gloria Scott, Holmes was invited to spend a month in the Broads ‘basking in the sun and admiring the view across the Broads’. In The Dancing Men Watson describes the ‘enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of Old East Anglia’. There are plenty of opportunities to enjoy cycling in East Anglia. Walkers can enjoy the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path.

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