Yelverton
Yelverton is a huge town 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 in the 19th century, the town came to be a popular house for Plymouth commuters. The railway is currently closed, but the Plym Valley Railway has resumed a section of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a noticeable mass of stone near the Plymouth road on the edge of close-by Roborough Down, near the southern end of the landing field. It provided its name to the Rock Hotel, developed as a ranch throughout the Elizabethan period, however transformed in the 1850s to provide for growing tourist in the location. The location to the south and also west of the roundabout at the centre of the town was resolved in late Victorian and also Edwardian times, with many grand and luxurious vacation homes. An area established at about 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 beginning of the Second World War, a landing strip (RAF Harrowbeer) was built at adjacent Harrowbeer as a competitor terminal for the air support of Devonport Dockyard and the Western Approaches. A 19th century balcony of residences, now primarily exchanged shops, needed to have its upper storey eliminated to offer a much easier strategy. One tall building 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 paths is still extremely clear and although they are considerably grassed over, the many earth and also brick protective shelters constructed to secure the competitors from strike on the ground are all still in place. Some American airmen and anti-aircraft battery systems were posted right here during the second half of the war. An airplane bring President Roosevelt landed right here when its initial location was fogbound.
