..and the answer is yes, thanks to the now forgotten ‘Maybury Scheme’ which was a central government plan to set up a permanent network of short air routes between all UK centres of population. World War II put a stop to the scheme’s developments, but it left as a legacy a few new ‘Marconi’ D/F receiving stations, built in 1938-39 all a few miles out from their parent airfields.

One such was at Plympton, which served Roborough.

There is so little written about this subject – but there are some scraps of sources if you Google deeply enough!