During the Second World War, Crapstone was the nearest village to RAF Harrowbeer.

Members of the RAF crew were housed in the nearby villages of Crapstone, Yelverton and Buckland Monachorum.

[2] Local residents started a protest group on the social networking site Facebook complaining that the village used in the television advert was not actually Crapstone but a location using its name.

[3] As a child, Christopher Hitchens lived for some years in the village, and noted his embarrassment at the name in his autobiography, as well as in the pages of Vanity Fair.

[citation needed] Nearby villages include: Media related to Crapstone at Wikimedia Commons