About three kilometres northeast of Widecombe, Grimspound is one of the best-preserved Bronze Age settlements in Britain. A massive pound wall, roughly 3 metres wide at the base, encloses an area of about 4 acres on a hillside of the moor. Inside the enclosure, the foundations of 24 hut circles remain visible — round stone settings where people lived around 3,500 years ago.
The walk from the road is short and the site is completely open — no entrance fee, no management, just stone on an open hillside with views across the moor in every direction. Grimspound was most likely a pastoral farming settlement, using the high moor for summer grazing. Arthur Conan Doyle used the area as the setting for the neolithic man's camp in The Hound of the Baskervilles.