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Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England.Its population was 24,029 in 2011, and was estimated at 26,655 in 2019. [1]
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.
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 ...
[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.
It was in the Alexandra Theatre, Newton Abbot in 1908. The Devon County Show was in Newton Abbot in 1911-the coronation year. The venue was the Butter Market, on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 May 1911. [75] It was performed for 5 days, 21–26 June 1911 in the Torquay Theatre.
By the 1940s, the goods station at Milford was still busy with livestock traffic, especially on Tuesdays, the market day. [17] It had sixteen sidings, a headshunt parallel to Milford Junction, a weighbridge and a goods shed. The longest siding (known as "Cross on the Straight"), was 1,100 feet (340 m) long. [18]
[2] [1] A church had sat on this site, in the centre of Newton Abbot and the meeting point of its three main streets, since 1220 and is mentioned in a surviving document of 29 May 1350. [3] [4] [2] The church consisted of the tower and a small nave to the east measuring 55 feet (17 m) by 20 feet (6.1 m). The nave was described as unremarkable ...
Market Day may refer to Market Day, an Ignatz Award-winning graphic novel by James Sturm; Business day; Trading day; A day, often set days in the week, sometimes more ...