Traditional county: Devon · District / Borough: West Devon · Region: South West
Explore Roborough Down, Devon with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Roborough Down map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Roborough Down |
| Traditional County | Devon |
| District / Borough | West Devon |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.477206 |
| Longitude | -4.096776 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Roborough Down stretches across the high, wind-brushed horizon as a vast expanse of open moorland where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 5.5 miles south-south-east of Tavistock (from Tavistock: bearing 157°T, OS grid SX 513 662), and is situated north-west of Clearbrook village. This high ground sits firmly within the protected boundaries of Dartmoor National Park, where the gorse and heather endure the relentless passage of Atlantic weather. To the north-west, the rise of Stokehill breaks the skyline, offering a solitary silhouette against the shifting grey light of the West Devon clouds. The landscape here possesses a raw, unadorned clarity, stripped of ornamental hedges and defined instead by the ancient, rhythmic drift of grazing livestock. History remains quiet but present in the form of the Early-Christian Inscribed Stone Near Uphill, a silent witness to centuries of travellers crossing this exposed terrain. Roborough Down acts as a grand, elevated gateway, where the air tastes of salt and peat, and the horizon invites a long, steady gaze across the untamed sweep of the moor.
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Explore Roborough Down, Devon, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.477206, -4.096776. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |