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Yelverton is a large town 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 prominent home for Plymouth commuters. The railway is now closed, but the Plym Valley Railway has resumed a section of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock – a prominent mass of stone close to the Plymouth road on the fringe of neighboring Roborough Down, near the southern end of the airfield. It gave its name to the Rock Hotel, developed as a ranch throughout the Elizabethan duration, but transformed in the 1850s to provide for expanding tourist in the location. The area to the south and also west of the roundabout at the centre of the village was resolved in late Victorian and also Edwardian times, with numerous grand as well as extravagant suites. A location established at regarding the exact same time on a weird shaped tract to the south of the Tavistock road is called Leg o’ Mutton Corner. At the start of the 2nd World War, a landing strip (RAF Harrowbeer) was created at nearby Harrowbeer as a fighter terminal for the air protection of Devonport Dockyard and also the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of homes, currently mainly converted into stores, had to have its top storey eliminated to provide a much easier method. One high structure which was not altered was St. Paul’s Church, yet the tower was struck by an airplane, causing a warning light being fitted. The design of the paths is still extremely clear and also although they are substantially grassed over, the many earth as well as brick protective shelters built to shield the competitors from strike on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen and also anti-aircraft battery units were based below during the 2nd fifty percent of the war. A plane bring President Roosevelt landed below when its original destination was fogbound.