Newton Abbot: Market Town at the Head of the Teign Estuary in Devon
Newton Abbot sits at the point where the River Lemon meets the Teign estuary, about fifteen miles south of Exeter. The town has held a market since 1220, and the Wednesday and Saturday markets in the Market Walk and the surrounding streets still draw people from across South Devon. The population is around 26,000. Newton Abbot Racecourse, on the eastern edge of the town, is one of the smaller National Hunt courses in the country, running fixtures through the summer months.
The railway junction at Newton Abbot was crucial to the development of the Great Western Railway's route into Cornwall. Isambard Kingdom Brunel's atmospheric railway, an experimental system using air pressure instead of locomotives, operated briefly through Newton Abbot in the 1840s before the technology failed. The town serves as a gateway to Dartmoor, with the open moorland beginning a few miles to the west at Bovey Tracey. Bradley Manor, a fifteenth-century manor house owned by the National Trust, sits in a secluded valley on the edge of town. For those considering adult companionship, English law applies.
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Newton Abbot sits at the point where the River Lemon meets the Teign estuary, about fifteen miles south of Exeter. The town has held a market since 1220, and the Wednesday and Saturday markets in the Market Walk and the surrounding streets still draw people from across South Devon. The population is around 26,000. Newton Abbot Racecourse, on the eastern edge of the town, is one of the smaller National Hunt courses in the country, running fixtures through the summer months.
The railway junction at Newton Abbot was crucial to the development of the Great Western Railway's route into Cornwall. Isambard Kingdom Brunel's atmospheric railway, an experimental system using air pressure instead of locomotives, operated briefly through Newton Abbot in the 1840s before the technology failed. The town serves as a gateway to Dartmoor, with the open moorland beginning a few miles to the west at Bovey Tracey. Bradley Manor, a fifteenth-century manor house owned by the National Trust, sits in a secluded valley on the edge of town. For those considering adult companionship, English law applies.
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