Just imagine you were visiting the UK, and you decided to let your Doylean interests guide the places you visited... what would those places be?
I'd like to collect suggestions, and add them onto this list for that dreamed-of exploration. If someone was driving all over the UK - what are those places worth visiting both obscure and popular?
My preference is to minimize Sherlock things on this list to the most important ones (or perhaps non-London ones), because that is such well-covered territory.
Literary locations - looking for non-Sherlock sites
Brambletye Hotel, Wealden, East Sussex - the hotel Holmes and Watson stay at in Black Peter (and Doyle stayed here too).
Castleton, Derbyshire, and the Blue John Cavern - the village associated with 'The Terror of Blue John Gap'.
Dartmoor, Devon - Hiking across the moor, the setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles and Silver Blaze, featuring various spots that inspired the moody, atmospheric setting. This would include Buckfastleigh parish graveyard where the Cabell tomb.
Doyle's life
The ACD Encyclopedia has a list of places Doyle lived that is very useful. I highlighted one or two I'm very interested in: .
Masongill, Yorkshire - Where Doyle's mother lived on the estate of Bryan Charles Waller, and Doyle visited regularly.
Minstead, New Forest District, Hampshire - the grave of Arthur Conan Doyle
Picardy Place, Edinburgh - The birthplace of Conan Doyle. The original building is gone, a statue of Sherlock Holmes stands nearby.
Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire - Doyle lived here for four months in 1878 as a medical student.
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