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The Newton Abbot site is the largest of the four and covers over 100 acres (0.4 km 2) of land. It has several independent businesses. A garden centre, the largest in the south west, [2] was opened on the site in 2009, [3] followed in 2010 by a new restaurant. [4] In October 2004, a large fire broke out in the main building of the branch. [5]
The building was commissioned as a corn exchange by the Newton Abbot local board.It formed part of a broader programme of improvements, which also included a new market hall, and, after being authorised by act of parliament in 1868, [2] was facilitated by diverting the River Lemon into a culvert.
Newton Abbot has two non-League football clubs: Buckland Athletic F.C., which plays at Homers Heath, and Newton Abbot Spurs A.F.C., which plays at the Recreation Ground. The headquarters of Devon County Football Association are in the town. Newton Abbot's South Devon Cricket Club was established in 1851 and also plays at the Recreation Ground.
It is a major employer in Newton Abbot, having 65 full-time and 100 part-time staff. [2] Some 30% of the staff have more than 20 years of continuous service with the firm. [ 1 ] In recent years the firm has taken steps to improve its environmental performance, installing LED lighting and 1,000 solar panels.
[3] [4] Rowell continued to live there until he died in September 1911. [5] The building was then taken over by the YMCA which remained there until after the Second World War. [3] In the 1980s, the building was acquired by Newton Abbot Town Council as their offices and meeting place and an extension was added at its rear.
Flowing past the house is the Bradley Leat which used to provide water for the manorial mills which were located where the cattle market in Newton Abbot now stands. [3] Bradley was given to the National Trust in 1938 by Mrs A. H. Woolner, daughter of the Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth. Her family still live in the house and manage it on the ...
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Lawrence County is the southernmost county of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,240. [1] Its county seat is Ironton. [2] The county was created in 1815 and later organized in 1817. [3] It is named for James Lawrence, the naval officer famous for the line "do not give up the ship". [4]