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Extract from the Princetown and the central moor Travel Guides:
PRINCETOWN
owes its growth to the presence of Dartmoor Prison, a high-security jail originally constructed for POWs captured in the Napoleonic wars. Its grim spirit seeps into the village, which has a somewhat oppressed air and functional grey stone houses, some of them - like the parish church of St Michael - built by French and American prisoners. What Princetown lacks in beauty is amply compensated for by the surrounding country, the best of which lies immediately to the north.
Information on all of Dartmoor is given by the main
National Park information centre
, on the village's central green (daily:...
read the whole Princetown and the central moor Travel Guides...
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