Yelverton
Yelverton is a huge 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 in the 19th century, the town came to be a prominent house for Plymouth commuters. The train is now shut, yet the Plym Valley Railway has actually resumed a section of it. Yelverton is popular 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 converted in the 1850s to cater for growing tourist in the area. The location to the south and also 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 also luxurious villas. A location established at about the exact same time on a weird designed piece of land to the south of the Tavistock road is called Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the beginning of the Second World War, an airfield (RAF Harrowbeer) was created at adjacent Harrowbeer as a fighter station for the air protection of Devonport Dockyard and the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of houses, now mostly exchanged shops, had to have its top floor eliminated to provide a less complicated method. One tall structure which was not modified was St. Paul's Church, however the tower was struck by a plane, resulting in a caution light being fitted. The design of the paths is still really clear and also although they are significantly grassed over, the many earth as well as block protective bunkers developed to secure the boxers from strike on the ground are all still in place. Some American airmen as well as anti-aircraft battery devices were pointed here throughout the second half of the battle. A plane bring President Roosevelt landed here when its original destination was fogbound.
