He think of his primary accomplishment a collection of folk songs that he made by using a assist of the average humans of Devon & Cornwall. His foremost book of songs, Songs of the West (1889–91), was a number 1 collection published for the mass market, Though he got to modify the words of occasionally songs which were as well uncivil for Victorian ears, he left his original manuscripts for first students of folk ballad. His function preserved numerous beautiful pieces of music & their lyrics which otherwise may stand been misused.

Baring-Gould produced another collection known as A Garland of Country Songs. For another edition of Songs of the West (1905) he collaborated by using a collector Cecil Sharp. It besides produced English Folk Songs for Schools within 1907. This collection of 53 songs was adopted for the UK schools syllabus, for the next Lx years.

Sharp dedicated his English Folksong—A select few Conclusions to Baring-Gould. A folk-song manuscripts from either Baring-Gould's individual library & from either public libraries own been puublished as a microfiche edition available for learn in the independent Devon Libraries & more site. Additionally Thirty boxes of unpublished manuscript material on more topics (a Killerton manuscripts) come saved in the Devon County Record Professional.

Baring-Gould wrote numbers of novels, the collection of ghost stories, the 16-volume Shacks of the Saints, & a life of the nonconcentric poet-vicar of Morwenstow, Robert Stephen Hawker. His folkloric studies resulted in The Book of Were-Wolfman (1865), one of a virtually all often cited studies of lycanthropy. Half-midway across, a topic changes to crimes single mistily attached to lycanthrope, including grave profanation & cannibalism. Stories of his stand eccentricity have been exaggerated. He did when, when teaching at Hurstpierpoint, have his best-loved bat on his shoulder.

Patch the pastor within Horbury in Yorkshire, Baring-Gould met a mill girl known as Grace Taylor. He sent her away to exist as educated, then married her inside 1868. A few got Fifteen tikes.

A single grandson, William Stuart Baring-Gould, was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar who wrote a fictional biography of the great detective—in which, to make up for the lack of information about Holmes's early life, he based his account on the childhood of Sabine Baring-Gould.