Yelverton
Yelverton is a huge village 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 in the 19th century, the town came to be a popular house for Plymouth commuters. The train is currently shut, however the Plym Valley Railway has reopened a section of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a popular mass of rock near the Plymouth road on the fringe of neighboring Roborough Down, near the southern end of the airfield. It gave its name to the Rock Hotel, built as a ranch during the Elizabethan period, however converted in the 1850s to provide for expanding tourist in the location. The location to the south and also west of the roundabout at the centre of the village was worked out in late Victorian and also Edwardian times, with several grand and opulent vacation homes. A location developed at concerning the exact same time on a strange designed tract to the south of the Tavistock road is known as Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the start of the Second World War, a landing field (RAF Harrowbeer) was constructed at surrounding Harrowbeer as a boxer station for the air defence of Devonport Dockyard and the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of homes, now mainly converted into shops, needed to have its upper floor eliminated to give an easier strategy. One high building which was not altered was St. Paul's Church, however the tower was struck by a plane, causing a caution light being fitted. The format of the paths is still very clear as well as although they are significantly grassed over, the many earth as well as block protective shelters built to safeguard the boxers from assault on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen and anti-aircraft battery devices were pointed right here during the second half of the war. An aircraft bring President Roosevelt landed below when its initial destination was fogbound.
