Often it is locally referred to as just "The Rock". It has also been called "Yelverton Rock". Roborough Rock has two high ends and a lower middle section...
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in a "simplified Gothic style". Rock Methodist Church is also in Yelverton. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a prominent mass of stone close...
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National Park. Roborough Rock is a tor-like igneous rock outcrop immediately south-west of the airfield (officially called 'Udal Tor') on Roborough Down, next...
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Ridge SX665768 Rival Tor (Rippator, Rifle Tor) SX642881 Rock Copse Tors SX815803 Roborough Rock SX515672 Rook Tor SX602615 Roos Tor (Roose Tor, Rulestorre...
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Lands and Hereditaments, in the Parishes of Warkleigh, Satterly, and Roborough, in the County of Devon, the Estate of Thomas Jeffery of the City of Exon...
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arose over the diversion of water from the leat for use in tin mills on Roborough Down. On one side was Thomas Drake, brother of the deceased Francis, who...
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School. Guest later began performing with bluegrass bands until he took up rock and roll. Guest went to Bard College for a year and then studied acting at...
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Guinness's boarding-school education at Pembroke Lodge, in Southborne, and Roborough, in Eastbourne. Geddes- who with a "round face and sticking-out ears"...
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Secretary of State for Defence Lord Roborough 25 October 2022 Conservative Hereditary peer Investment banker Baroness Rock 15 October 2015 Conservative Life...
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Denison-Pender, 4th Baron Pender Miles Denison-Pender The Baron Roborough 1938 Massey Lopes, 4th Baron Roborough Henry Lopes The Baron Brassey of Apethorpe 1938 Edward...
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1920s for civilian flights RAF Rivenhall RL England Essex 1943 1945 RAF Roborough England Devon 1938 1945 Formerly Plymouth Municipal Aerodrome, now Plymouth...
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extended by 245 m (804 ft) out into the Irish Sea by the construction of a rock-armoured promontory. It was part of a £44m plan which also included resurfacing...
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Haytor, Hemyock, Lifton, North Tawton and Winkleigh, Ottery, Plympton, Roborough, Shebbear, Shirwell, South Molton, Stanborough, Tavistock, Teignbridge...
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which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a 'sloop of war' to harass the French in 1803–1804...
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(referred to as "turnouts")—two per mile. Some sidings – at least at Roborough and Yelverton – were to be constructed of granite blocks dressed so as...
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House 30 October 1805 480 Lopes of Maristow House 1 November 1805 Baron Roborough 481 Cotterell of Garnons 2 November 1805 482 Muir Mackenzie of Delvine...
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Huntshaw, Langtree, Little Torrington, Merton, Peters Marland, Petrockstow, Roborough, Shebbear, Sheepwash, St Giles in the Woods, Wear Gifford, Winkleigh,...
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was ordered to Taunton and Bridgwater in Somerset, then on 21 June to Roborough Down, near Plymouth, Devonshire,where it joined a large encampment. Here...
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Plymouth City Council PL6 PLYMOUTH Derriford, Eggbuckland, Estover, Leigham, Roborough, Southway Lopwell, Woolwell, Bickleigh Plymouth City Council South Hams...
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and bomb the oil tanker SS Torrey Canyon from, whch had struck Pollard's Rock on West end of the Seven Stones between the Cornish mainland and the Isles...
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King Charles – indie rock artist J. Michael Clarke (St Chad's) – composer and musician Rod Clements (Cuths) – musician in folk-rock band Lindisfarne (Alfred)...
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estate was the Roborough Library named in recognition of the interest taken in the development of the college by the first Lord Roborough, one of its early...
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Lopes of Maristow House 1805 Lopes extant fourth Baronet created Baron Roborough in 1938 Louis of Chelston 1806 Louis extinct 1949 Low of Kilmaron 1908...
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generally quite unknown. It juts out of some trees and resembles more of a rock than an outcrop on a hill, like Great Mis Tor and Yes Tor that also provide...
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Victoria Lopes (1895–1971), second daughter of Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Roborough and Lady Alberta Louisa Florence Edgcumbe (second daughter of William...
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contractors to deliver a successful remediation of Dalgety Bay.The work replaced rock armour around the headland and installed a replacement slipway for the Dalgety...
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committee of the National Art Collections Fund. He was a director of Northern Rock plc (1987–2001). He is married to the former Clare Nicolette Darby, daughter...
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Lopes of Maristow House 1805 Lopes extant fourth Baronet created Baron Roborough in 1938 Louis of Chelston 1806 Louis extinct 1949 Low of Kilmaron 1908...
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1914: Sir Henry Yarde Buller Lopes, 4th Baronet, of Maristow House, Roborough. 1915: Sir Edward Chaning Wills, 2nd Baronet, of Harcombe, Chudleigh....
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is thought to be of Iron Age date. Ruborough Camp Rowberrow Rowborough Roborough Money Field Iron Age 1007670 Broomfield 51°05′44″N 3°06′14″W / 51.0956°N...
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