Coffinswell, Newton Abbot, TQ12 4SS

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. The town grew rapidly in the Victorian era as the home of the South Devon Railway locomotive works, later becoming a major steam engine shed that served British Railways diesel locomotives until 1981. The former works site now houses the Brunel industrial estate. Newton Abbot has a racecourse nearby, the most westerly in England, and a country park, Decoy. The town is twinned with Besigheim in Germany and Ay in France.