Roborough

Roborough is a village in the South Hams district of Devon, just outside the northern edge of Plymouth on the A386 road to Tavistock. Roborough Down, the moorland next to it, lies within Dartmoor National Park but is owned by Lord Roborough's Maristow Estate. The village is mostly a commuter place for Plymouth.

The Lopes family, descended from Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, a Jamaican-born baronet and MP, later took the title Baron Roborough, and the village pub is the Lopes Arms. In the 1920s Sir Henry Lopes, Lord Roborough, gave land to the people of Bickleigh and Roborough for recreation, and the village hall on those fields opened in 1926. George Odger, a shoemaker who became leader of the London Trades Council and the first trade unionist to stand for Parliament, came from Roborough.

RAF Roborough, later Plymouth City Airport, was here until the airport closed in 2011. No dated account of how the village itself began has turned up, and no 2021 census figure was found.