6 OF THE BEST SHERLOCK BREAKS

1 London The address 221b Baker Street is synonymous with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth and is now home to the Sherlock Holmes Museum. A night at the Langham Hotel’s Conan Doyle suite costs £804. www.london.langhamhotels.co.uk. Or stay at the nearby Blandford; doubles from £89 a night. www.capricornhotels.co.uk/hotel_blandford.

2 Devon Dartmoor plays host to one of Conan Doyle’s most famous mysteries, The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Stay at Prince Hall, which is where the author is said to have found inspiration for the novel. Double rooms from £95 a night. www.princehall.co.uk.

3 Scotland Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh and studied at the university, where he met Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Holmes. You can see the author’s statue near his birthplace, Picardy Place, and enjoy a drink at the nearby Conan Doyle pub. Stay at The Glasshouse, double rooms from £99 a night. www.theetoncollection.co.uk.

4 Cornwall Rent the cottage where Holmes and Watson stayed while solving the case of The Adventure Of The Devil’s Foot. Set on a cliff above Poldhu Cove, Craig-aBella-Sherlock sleeps four and costs from £291 a week. www.cornishcottagesonline.com.

5 Hampshire Conan Doyle wrote the first Holmes novel, A Study In Scarlet, while working as a doctor in Portsmouth, where the City Museum has the world’s largest collection of Holmes memorabilia. Doubles at the Marriott from £148 a night. www.marriott.co.uk.

6 East Sussex Holmes hung up his deerstalker and retired to a cottage on the South Downs. Discover what appealed to him about the county that’s the setting for his short story The Lion’s Mane. Base yourself at The Grand in Eastbourne from £135 a night for a double room. www.grandeastbourne.com.

Ursula Hirschkorn