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The twin markets of Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel continued until they were merged in 1633 as a Wednesday weekly market under the control of Bradley Manor. By 1751 it had been joined by a smaller Saturday market and three annual fairs: a cattle fair on 24 June, a cheese and onion fair in September, and a cloth fair on 6 November.
The NDMA also hosts a weekly farmer's market from June to October outside the market building. [1] The Dublin market, completed in 2020, was designed to be more modern than the downtown location. The new market has 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m 2) of space, two-thirds of which is for the public. The market has 15 vendors, with a total capacity of 19. [3]
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.
The Old Town Hall, also known as No. 9 Devon Square, is a former municipal building in Devon Square in Newton Abbot, a town in Devon, in England. The structure, which started life as a private house and was later converted for municipal use, is a Grade II listed building .
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]
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 ...
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.
The railway branch line from Newton Abbot to Kingswear in Devon, England, is unusual as a large majority of the stations are still open for traffic.Of the eleven stations, seven are still open so there are only four disused railway stations on this line, a much lower proportion than most similar lines that do not serve big cities.