Yelverton
Yelverton is a large 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 up in the 19th century, the village ended up being a popular home for Plymouth commuters. The train is currently closed, yet the Plym Valley Railway has reopened a section of it. Yelverton is popular for Roborough Rock - a prominent mass of stone close to the Plymouth road on the fringe of nearby Roborough Down, near the southerly end of the airfield. It gave its name to the Rock Hotel, developed as a farm throughout the Elizabethan duration, yet converted in the 1850s to provide for expanding tourist in the location. The location to the south and west of the roundabout at the centre of the town was worked out in late Victorian as well as Edwardian times, with lots of grand and opulent rental properties. An area established at concerning the very same time on a strange designed tract to the south of the Tavistock road is called Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the start of the 2nd World War, a landing field (RAF Harrowbeer) was built at surrounding Harrowbeer as a competitor terminal for the air protection of Devonport Dockyard and also the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of residences, now primarily converted into shops, had to have its top floor eliminated to supply a less complicated method. One high structure which was not altered was St. Paul's Church, but the tower was struck by an aircraft, resulting in a warning light being fitted. The layout of the runways is still really clear and also although they are considerably grassed over, the many planet and block safety shelters constructed to shield the boxers from attack on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen and also anti-aircraft battery units were pointed here throughout the 2nd fifty percent of the battle. A plane lugging President Roosevelt landed right here when its original destination was fogbound.
