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His mother, Susan Passmore, was born in Newton Abbot and lived there until the age of 10. [2] In 1901 Passmore Edwards proposed to erect a library in the town in memory of his mother, with the condition that the Newton Abbot Urban District Council adopt the measures outlined in the Public Libraries Act 1850.
In 1861 the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway Company was formed at the Globe Hotel in Newton Abbot, and in 1862 the bill for making the railway was given royal assent as the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. cxxviii). Work on the line commenced in 1863, and the major earthworks (with cuttings and ...
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.
Totnes railway station was built by the South Devon Railway Company and opened on 20 July 1847 when trains started to run on the line from Newton, as Newton Abbot was known at the time. [2] [page needed] It was a terminus until 5 May 1848 when trains started to run through to Plymouth, initially using a temporary terminus at Laira.
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The A380 leaves the A38 at Kennford, some 3 miles (4.8 km) from that road's junction with the M5 motorway, and 6 miles (9.7 km) from the centre of the city of Exeter.It then proceeds in a generally southerly direction, climbing over the Haldon Hills, past junctions for Mamhead and Teignmouth, before descending past the towns of Kingsteignton and Newton Abbot and continuing on a flyover over ...
[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.
Teignbridge is a local government district in Devon, England.Its council is based in the town of Newton Abbot.The district also includes the towns of Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish, Kingsteignton and Teignmouth, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.