I FULLY understand the necessity for elderly persons from Briar Tor to have a pathway to the surgery, but I don?t think it was necessary to go straight through Yelverton?s original bowling green which was levelled before the First World War. A small deviation would have avoided the green at no extra cost.
It is, of course, going across the old horse-drawn railway line which went from Princetown to Plymouth. This is understandable as already the surround of the roundabout is made up of granite blocks from the line demolished when the new road was built in 1941.
As a matter of interest, between the wars the bowling club was moved to the left of the Devon Tors, which was a very good position where the two houses have now been built., before moving after the Second World War to the Yelverton memorial field.
The real fragmentation of Yelverton started when the authorities, without consulting local Yelvertonians, decided to put the roundabout in the middle of what was then the village green. My father, Algernon, who was then in his sixties, complained bitterly but by then it was a fait-accompli
George Langton
The Rock Hotel, Yelverton