16 Jan
Insulation | Loft / Roof
Yelverton - PL20
Enquiry from: Bryony H
Start Date: 1 to 3 months
We need approx 300m2 of loft insulation installing at 300mm depth Homeowner Please contact to appoint
Yelverton
Yelverton is a big village on the south-western side 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 ended up being a preferred residence for Plymouth travelers. The train is now closed, but the Plym Valley Railway has actually reopened an area of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a prominent mass of rock near to the Plymouth road on the edge of close-by Roborough Down, near the southerly end of the airfield. It offered its name to the Rock Hotel, built as a farm throughout the Elizabethan duration, however transformed in the 1850s to provide for growing tourism in the location. The area to the south and also west of the roundabout at the centre of the town was cleared up in late Victorian as well as Edwardian times, with many grand and extravagant villas. A location created at regarding the very same time on an odd shaped tract to the south of the Tavistock road is referred to as Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the start of the 2nd World War, an airfield (RAF Harrowbeer) was created at adjacent Harrowbeer as a boxer terminal for the air protection of Devonport Dockyard and also the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of residences, currently primarily exchanged stores, needed to have its top storey got rid of to supply an easier approach. One tall structure which was not changed was St. Paul's Church, yet the tower was struck by an airplane, leading to a warning light being fitted. The layout of the runways is still really clear and also although they are considerably grassed over, the many earth and also brick protective shelters constructed to secure the boxers from attack on the ground are all still in place. Some American airmen as well as anti-aircraft battery devices were pointed right here during the second half of the war. A plane carrying President Roosevelt landed right here when its original location was fogbound.
