14 Jan
Cleaning | Conservatory
Yelverton - PL20
Enquiry from: Clive C
Start Date: Immediate
Are you the property owner: Owner of the property Have you considered replacing your conservatory: Yes Please call to appoint
Yelverton
Yelverton is a big town on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England. When Yelverton train station (on the Great Western Railway (GWR) line from Plymouth to Tavistock) opened up in the 19th century, the town came to be a popular residence for Plymouth travelers. The train is currently closed, yet the Plym Valley Railway has actually resumed an area of it. Yelverton is popular for Roborough Rock - a famous mass of rock close to the Plymouth road on the edge of close-by Roborough Down, near the southerly end of the landing strip. It gave its name to the Rock Hotel, built as a farm during the Elizabethan duration, yet transformed in the 1850s to provide for growing tourist in the area. The location to the south and west of the roundabout at the centre of the village was settled in late Victorian and also Edwardian times, with several grand and luxurious villas. An area established at about the exact same time on a strange shaped parcel to the south of the Tavistock road is known as Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the beginning of the Second World War, an airfield (RAF Harrowbeer) was built at surrounding Harrowbeer as a boxer station for the air defence of Devonport Dockyard as well as the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of houses, now mostly converted into shops, needed to have its upper storey eliminated to offer a much easier method. One tall structure which was not changed was St. Paul's Church, but the tower was struck by an aircraft, resulting in a caution light being fitted. The format of the runways is still very clear and although they are considerably grassed over, the many earth and block safety bunkers built to shield the competitors from assault on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen as well as anti-aircraft battery systems were pointed right here throughout the second half of the battle. An airplane carrying President Roosevelt landed right here when its original destination was fogbound.
