Editing HM Prison Dartmoor (section)

==In popular culture==
*The adventure story ''A Rogue by Compulsion. An Affair of the Secret Service'' (1915) by [[Victor Bridges]] begins with a dramatic escape from Dartmoor.<ref>{{cite book|last= Bridges |first = Victor |title= A Rogue by Compulsion. An Affair of the Secret Service |publisher= Project Gutenberg|date= 1915 |url= http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10511 |access-date= 27 December 2012 }}</ref>
*In the John Galsworthy play, ''[[Escape (play)|Escape]]'', Dartmoor is the prison from which the hero, Captain Denman escapes. The stage production in 1927 starred Leslie Howard and the 1930 film version starred Sir Gerald du Maurier.
*The 1929 movie ''[[A Cottage on Dartmoor]]'' begins with an escapee from Dartmoor prison, and proceeds to a flashback as to how he came to be incarcerated.
*''[[Decline and Fall]]'', a novel by [[Evelyn Waugh]], first published in 1928 makes thinly disguised references to Dartmoor Prison.
*Dartmoor Prison is mentioned in ''[[The Thirteen Problems]]'', a short story collection written by [[Agatha Christie]], and first published in 1932. Christie's ''[[The Sittaford Mystery]]'' (1931) is set on Dartmoor and features an escaped prisoner.
*[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] made reference to 'Princetown Prison' in four stories that he wrote between 1890 and 1903. In ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1902), an escaped prisoner from Princetown serves as a red herring for Holmes and Watson.
*''[[Dressed to Kill (1946 film)|Dressed to Kill]]'', a 1946 [[Sherlock Holmes]] film uses Dartmoor Prison in the plot as the supposed location where three music boxes were made that contain a secret code for a criminal gang.<ref>{{cite book|last=Weaver|first=Tom|title=Universal horrors: the studio's classic films, 1931–1946|year=2007|publisher=McFarland}}</ref>
*In the ''Tales of Old Dartmoor'' episode (recorded in 1956) of [[The Goon Show|The Goons]] radio comedy series, [[Hercules Grytpype-Thynne|Grytpype-Thynne]] arranges for the prison to put to sea to visit the [[Château d'If]] in France as part of a plan to find the treasure the Count of Monte Cristo hid there. A cardboard replica is left in its place, which is left standing after the original Dartmoor Prison sinks with all hands at the end of the episode.
*In an episode of ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'' television series entitled "Escape Route" (1966), [[Simon Templar]] ([[Roger Moore]]) is sent to Dartmoor to uncover a planned escape.
*In 1988, the prison played host to a storyline in ''[[EastEnders]]'', where [[Den Watts]] (played by [[Leslie Grantham]]) was being held on remand for arson at a prison called Dickens Hill. He was joined by [[Nick Cotton]] (played by [[John Altman (actor)|John Altman]]), imprisoned for a different offence.
*Dartmoor prison is implicated in the local Dartmoor '[[Hairy hands]]' [[ghost story]]/[[legend]].
*Dartmoor prison plays a central role in ''The Lively Lady'', American author [[Kenneth Roberts (author)|Kenneth Roberts]]' 1931 historical novel taking place during The [[War of 1812]]
*In the first episode of the second TV series of ''[[James May's Man Lab]]'', [[James May]] and [[Oz Clarke]] were demonstrating map-reading skills by pretending to escape from Dartmoor prison and cross [[Dartmoor]] to their escape car<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC Two – James May's Man Lab, Series 2, Episode 1|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016mz66|publisher=BBC|access-date=26 October 2011}}</ref> (although they had to start their escape from outside the prison grounds as they were not allowed permission inside the prison).
*One of the intersecting story lines in Edward Marston's novel, ''Shadow of the Hangman'' (2013) involves two American seamen who escape during the 1815 riot.
*The prison and the American sailors imprisoned towards the end of the [[War of 1812]] are central to [[Simon Mayo]]'s 2018 novel ''Mad Blood Stirring''.
*The narrator of the [[Hammond Innes]] novel [[Maddon's Rock]] is sentenced to (and escapes from) Dartmoor along with a co-conspirator after being wrongly convicted of mutiny.