HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. Its high granite walls dominate this area of the moor. The prison is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, and is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
HM Prison Dartmoor
HM Dartmoor Prison, as it appeared in 1812
The main gates of Dartmoor Prison host the inscription Parcere Subiectis (Trans: Spare the Vanquished) from Virgil's Aeneid.
Éamon de Valera was imprisoned at Dartmoor in 1919.
Princetown is a village located within Dartmoor national park in the English county of Devon. It is the principal settlement of the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest.
Photograph of prisoners on a work party at Dartmoor Prison about 1900
Church of St Michael, Princetown
Plume of Feathers public house