The story is set in Devonshire, England at the Baskerville Hall. The surrounding land is moorland. They are briefly in Coombe Tracey and the story began and ended in the house of Holmes and Watson in London. These pictures are of moors in England. The time it takes place is 1889. The moorland is used to symbolize an ominous mire of evil, and the bleak and deserted wasteland gives an eerie feeling. The setting becomes as much of a clue to the nature of the crime as other physical clues