North Bovey, Newton Abbot, TQ13 8RU

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