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 up in the 19th century, the village ended up being a prominent home for Plymouth travelers. The railway is currently closed, however the Plym Valley Railway has resumed a section of it. Yelverton is popular for Roborough Rock - a famous mass of stone near to the Plymouth road on the fringe of nearby Roborough Down, near the southern end of the landing strip. It offered its name to the Rock Hotel, developed as a farm during the Elizabethan duration, however transformed in the 1850s to provide for growing tourism in the area. The location to the south as well as west of the roundabout at the centre of the village was resolved in late Victorian and Edwardian times, with numerous grand as well as extravagant rental properties. A location created at about the very same time on a weird shaped piece of land to the south of the Tavistock road is referred to as Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the start of the Second World War, an airfield (RAF Harrowbeer) was built at surrounding Harrowbeer as a boxer station for the air support of Devonport Dockyard and the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of residences, currently mainly converted into stores, had to have its top floor got rid of to give a simpler technique. One tall building which was not modified was St. Paul's Church, yet the tower was hit by an aircraft, causing a warning light being fitted. The layout of the paths is still extremely clear as well as although they are substantially grassed over, the many earth and block safety bunkers constructed to protect the competitors from attack on the ground are all still in place. Some American airmen as well as anti-aircraft battery systems were posted right here during the second fifty percent of the battle. An aircraft bring President Roosevelt landed right here when its original destination was fogbound.