Yelverton is a large town on the south-western side of Dartmoor, Devon, in England. When Yelverton railway station (on the Great Western Railway (GWR) line from Plymouth to Tavistock) opened in the 19th century, the village came to be a popular house for Plymouth travelers. The railway is currently shut, yet the Plym Valley Railway has actually reopened a section of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a noticeable mass of rock near to the Plymouth road on the fringe of neighboring Roborough Down, near the southern end of the landing strip. It offered its name to the Rock Hotel, built as a ranch during the Elizabethan duration, but converted in the 1850s to provide for expanding tourist in the area. The area to the south as well as west of the roundabout at the centre of the town was resolved in late Victorian and also Edwardian times, with numerous grand and opulent villas. An area established at about the exact same time on a weird designed tract to the south of the Tavistock road is referred to as Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the beginning of the 2nd World War, a landing field (RAF Harrowbeer) was constructed at surrounding Harrowbeer as a boxer station for the air defence of Devonport Dockyard and also the Western Approaches. A 19th century balcony of homes, currently mainly exchanged shops, needed to have its top floor removed to give an easier method. One high structure which was not modified was St. Paul's Church, but the tower was hit by a plane, causing a caution light being fitted. The format of the paths is still extremely clear and also although they are substantially grassed over, the many planet as well as block safety bunkers constructed to safeguard the competitors from attack on the ground are all still in place. Some American airmen as well as anti-aircraft battery systems were pointed below during the second fifty percent of the war. A plane bring President Roosevelt landed here when its initial location was fogbound.