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In November 1874 he purchased the Sandford Orleigh estate in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, where he also died after a heart attack, at the age of 72, on 30 December 1893. He was cremated and his ashes buried in the Baker family vault at Grimley Saint Bartholomew Churchyard in Grimley, Worcestershire .
By his marriage he acquired extensive estates in six other counties. [6] He left no sons, only four daughters [10] and co-heiresses: [11] Eleanor Arcedekne, wife of Sir Walter Lucy of Dallington, Northamptonshire and Cublington, Buckinghamshire. [12] Phillipa Arcedekne, eventual heiress of Haccombe, the second wife of Sir Hugh Courtenay (c ...
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.
[1] [a] The Newton Abbot Town and Great Western Railway Museum was established in the building in the early 1990s. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] At a ceremony in the building, the commanding officer of the nuclear submarine , HMS Triumph , Commander Steve Waller, accepted the freedom of the town in September 2019.
The park is a small part of the originally 80,000-acre estate of James Templer, who built Stover House (now occupied by Stover School) with his fortune made building dockyards. He also significantly landscaped the area, including building the lake which is now at the centre of the park, and covers around 10 acres (4.0 ha), fed from the ...
Milber is a suburban area of Newton Abbot and former civil parish, now in the parish of Newton Abbot, in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England. Much of the area comprises a housing estate at grid reference. It lies to the east of the town centre, on the opposite side of the A380 road. Milber contains mainly houses, but also a trading ...
In 1817 the bank opened a new branch in Newton Abbot and in 1820 Ayshford Wise sold Wonwell and rented Forde House to be near his new premises. Later in the 1820s he sold his ancestral lands in Totnes to Edward Adolphus St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset (1775–1855), of Stover House , [ 14 ] who owned a great estate in and around Totnes the caput ...
South Devon UTC is a mixed University Technical College (UTC) located in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. It opened in 2015 and caters for students aged 14–19 years. [ 2 ] It is located on a former motor dealer site, which was vacated in 2012.