A Dartmoor estate, believed to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, is to receive a £1 million carbon credit investment.

UK law firm Burges Salmon has agreed to buy up to 8,000 premium carbon credits from Exeter-based land management firm Oxygen Conservation at a cost of £125 per tonne.

The deal will help Oxygen Conservation to restore land at the Leighton Estate in the heart of the Bovey valley providing ‘biodiversity benefits that go beyond carbon,’ an Oxygen Conservations spokesperson said.

‘It is a landscape of rare ecological value, home to one of the largest remaining areas of temperate rainforest,’ the Oxygen Conservation spokesperson said. ‘Now, it’s at the centre of one of our most ambitious restoration projects and a defining landscape for the future of the carbon market.’