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Yelverton is a big 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 became a prominent residence for Plymouth travelers. The railway is now shut, yet the Plym Valley Railway has actually reopened a section of it. Yelverton is popular for Roborough Rock – a popular mass of stone close to the Plymouth road on the fringe of nearby Roborough Down, near the southerly end of the landing strip. It gave its name to the Rock Hotel, built as a farm during the Elizabethan period, but transformed in the 1850s to cater for growing tourist in the location. The location to the south as well as west of the roundabout at the centre of the town was resolved in late Victorian as well as Edwardian times, with several grand as well as opulent suites. An area established at about the very same time on a weird shaped piece of land to the south of the Tavistock road is known as Leg o’ Mutton Corner. At the beginning of the Second World War, an airfield (RAF Harrowbeer) was built at adjacent Harrowbeer as a competitor station for the air protection of Devonport Dockyard and the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of residences, currently mainly exchanged shops, needed to have its upper floor got rid of to provide a less complicated strategy. One high structure which was not modified was St. Paul’s Church, however the tower was struck by a plane, resulting in a warning light being fitted. The format of the runways is still very clear and also although they are substantially grassed over, the many planet and block protective bunkers developed to safeguard the fighters from assault on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen and also anti-aircraft battery devices were posted here throughout the second fifty percent of the battle. A plane bring President Roosevelt landed here when its original destination was fogbound.