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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. [3]
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 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 station was originally known as just "Newton" but this was changed to "Newton Abbot" on 1 March 1877. [ 6 ] The last broad gauge train ran on 20 May 1892, after which all the lines in the area were converted to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge over the space of a weekend.
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 ...
A new market will debut in Pinckney, ... Livingston County farmers markets 2024: Opening dates and what to know. Gannett. Jennifer Eberbach, Livingston Daily. May 3, 2024 at 12:59 AM.
[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.
Corner plot at 2-4 Courtenay Street pictured in 2008 when it housed a building society. it is now part of Austins' 6-8 Courtenay Street store. Austins is a department store in Newton Abbot, Devon. Founded in 1924 as a drapery shop the store has expanded to four locations in one part of the town which has been described as the "Austins Quarter".