Roborough

The main village street of Roborough

Roborough is a village in the South Hams of Devon, England. It lies just outside the northern boundary of the city of Plymouth on the main road to Tavistock, and is a popular dormitory village. See RNAS Roborough and Plymouth City Airport for details of the airport.

In the main street, long since bypassed by a modern dual carriageway, there is a very old pub named after the family surname of the Lopes, Baron Roborough. As tax has bitten through estate duties since the 1920s so this family have retreated in stages from the grand mansion at Maristow down on the River Tamar to Roborough House just off the Tavistock Road and latterly to Gnaton, a smaller mansion on the coast near Noss Mayo.

The Plymouth Argaum rugby club grounds are just east of the village.

Part of Roborough Down, with the main bulk of Dartmoor behind

Roborough Down is the name given to the long stretch of undulating moorland over which the road to Yelverton and Tavistock passes. It lies within Dartmoor National Park, but is owned by Lord Roborough's Maristow Estate. The down has a rich array of wildlife such as ravens, buzzards, foxes, deer and semi-wild ponies and its vegetation consists of pasture, gorse and bracken with frequent stands of hawthorn, oak and birch. However, the down's unique wildlife and environment is threatened by increasing deforestation and grazing pressure.^{[citation needed]}

There is another Roborough in mid-Devon situated south east of Great Torrington near Winkleigh at 50°56′N 4°02′W / 50.933°N 4.033°W / 50.933; -4.033.

External links

Media related to Roborough at Wikimedia Commons

This Devon location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e

Coordinates: 50°26′26″N 4°6′30″W / 50.44056°N 4.10833°W / 50.44056; -4.10833