Bennetts Cross, Dartmoor, Devon, England. Dartmoor. Find 368 miles of open space, and two shorelines, expanse in between. Most recently, this an update 2011, Stephen Spielberg's film, War Horse, was made here. See http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/below-the-line-green-valleys-golden-sunsets-and-war-horse/?ref=movies.
People get lost out there. Its wide area is a national park. See the location, at Devon, near Cornwall - http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/.
Bennett's Cross. The history of this particular cross is uncertain, but it could be named -- as many of these medieval landmarks -- for Benedictine monks, Saint Benedict. Spellings vary: Bennett, Bennet, Bennet's, Bennetts, see http://www.fotothing.com/ThorBeverley/photo/da43f2a71c16117e5be3cf3b8fcb734c/. Park your car anywhere and head down a path. If you worry all the time, you'll see little. We found this isolated cross, with a road sign pointing to it, "Bennet's Cross." That is one of many crosses of different kinds that were used to marks certain boundaries, or provide a landmark, or is named after the person with tin rights to the area at an early time: see Bennet's Cross at http://www.dartmoor-crosses.org.uk/bennet.htm.
That site carries the full listing and explanation for all the Dartmoor Crosses. Vast spaces.
Reread Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, or find the 1939 film at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031448/ -- with Sherlock Holmes. Later films are from 1959 and 2002. Do not cheat and go to Sparknotes at http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hound/
The setting is Dartmoor. Sherlock's statue and museum are in London, not far from Madame Tussaud's. See London post here.
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