Yelverton
Yelverton is a large 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 village became a prominent home for Plymouth commuters. The railway is now shut, but the Plym Valley Railway has actually reopened an area of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a famous mass of rock near the Plymouth road on the fringe of nearby Roborough Down, near the southerly end of the landing field. It provided its name to the Rock Hotel, constructed as a farm throughout the Elizabethan duration, yet converted in the 1850s to provide for growing tourist in the area. The area to the south as well as west of the roundabout at the centre of the village was cleared up in late Victorian and Edwardian times, with lots of grand and extravagant vacation homes. A location developed at concerning the same time on an odd designed parcel to the south of the Tavistock road is called Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the beginning of the 2nd World War, a landing strip (RAF Harrowbeer) was created at adjacent Harrowbeer as a boxer terminal for the air support of Devonport Dockyard and also the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of houses, now mostly converted into shops, needed to have its top floor eliminated to supply an easier strategy. One high building which was not altered was St. Paul's Church, however the tower was hit by a plane, leading to a caution light being fitted. The format of the runways is still really clear and also although they are considerably grassed over, the many earth and brick safety bunkers developed to protect the fighters from attack on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen and also anti-aircraft battery units were based right here throughout the second fifty percent of the war. A plane lugging President Roosevelt landed here when its initial location was fogbound.
