Yelverton Close

At the back of Agaton Farm, Ernesettle, is a small modern housing development with street names taken, like so many on the post-war estate, from places with aircraft bases.

Hence between Culdrose Close and Pembury Walk we find Yelverton Close. Sixteen types of aircraft flew from RAF Harrowbeer at Yelverton between 1940 and 1945.

Although the purpose-built airstrip was primarily used as an Air Sea Rescue base, there were also a number of fighters flown by the multi-national band of pilots operating from there.

Little used after 1946, the land was given up by the air ministry in 1950 and RAF Harrowbeer ceased to exist. Yelverton remains, however, and the name itself is a corruption of the original settlement here, Elford's Town Farm.