Newton Abbot
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market town and civil parish in Devon, England, UK
Key facts
- Population
- 25,556 (2011)
- Os grid reference
- SX860713
- Civil parish
- Newton Abbot
- District
- Teignbridge
- Shire county
- Devon
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Post town
- NEWTON ABBOT
- Postcode district
- TQ12
- Dialling code
- 01626
- Police
- Devon and Cornwall
- Fire
- Devon and Somerset
- Ambulance
- South Western
- Uk parliament
- Newton Abbot
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Welcome to Newton Abbot Town Council | Newton Abbot Town Council
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Encyclopedic overview
Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its population was 24,029 in 2011, and was estimated at 26,655 in 2019. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era as the home of the South Devon Railway locomotive works. This later became a major steam engine shed, retained to service British Railways diesel locomotives until 1981. It now houses the Brunel industrial estate. The town has a race course nearby, the most westerly in England, and a country park, Decoy. It is twinned with Besigheim in Germany and Ay in France.
Toponymy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Newton Abbot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.