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Wolborough is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Newton Abbot, in the Teignbridge district, in the county of Devon, England. Today the village forms a southern suburb of the town of Newton Abbot. [1] [2] The parish of Wolborough historically included the town of Newton Abbot. [3]
Robert Hayman, poet, and governor of Newfoundland, was born in Wolborough, now part of Newton Abbot, in 1575. Oliver Heaviside, the physicist, lived here from 1897 to 1909. Jon Lee (actor), the singer and actor received his early education here. John Lethbridge invented a diving salvage machine in 1715.
Newton Abbot Luke: 1936–1963 Church of England: Newton Abbot Parish [41] St Mary, Wolborough Newton Abbot Mary: Medieval Church of England: Newton Abbot Parish [41] St Joseph, Newton Abbot Newton Abbot: Joseph: Roman Catholic: Newton Abbot Parish Shaldon Road Methodist Church Newton Abbot Methodist: Teignbridge Circuit [1]
Today the tower is owned by the Newton Abbot Town Council and looked after by the Newton Abbot Museum who open it to the public for free on selected days between May and September. [4] The tower, popularly known locally as "The Clock Tower", has been described as the most conspicuous building on Wolborough Street and the town's best known landmark.
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 ...
The civil parish of Milber was abolished on 1 April 1974 when the three parishes within Newton Abbot Urban District (Milber, Highweek and Wolborough) were united as a single parish called Newton Abbot within the new Teignbridge district. [5] [6] [7] In 1951 the parish had a population of 2260. [8]
Sir Richard Reynell (c.1558–1633) of Forde in the parish of Wolborough, Devon, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament.He built the surviving Ford House, now in the suburbs of Newton Abbot and his daughter and sole heiress Jane Reynell, married the Parliamentary general Sir William Waller.
Gilberd's Almshouses, Old Exeter Road, Newton Abbot (new build) John Greenway Gardens, Gold Street, Tiverton; Lady Lucy Reynell's Clergy Widows' Houses, Torquay Road, Newton Abbot; Mackrell's Almshouses, Wolborough Street, Newton Abbot; Penrose's Almshouses, Lichdon Street, Barnstaple, built by Richard Beaple; they were Grade I listed in 1951. [29]