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| Newton Abbot | |
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 View over central Newton Abbot taken from Wolborough Hill, July 2005 | |
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  Newton Abbot Location within Devon | |
| Population | 25,556 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SX860713 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NEWTON ABBOT |
| Postcode district | TQ12 |
| Dialling code | 01626 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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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] It grew rapidly in the Victorian era as the home of the South Devon Railway locomotive works. This later became a major steam engine shed, retained to service British Railways diesel locomotives until 1981. It now houses the Brunel industrial estate. The town has a race course nearby, the most westerly in England,[2] and a country park, Decoy.[3] It is twinned with Besigheim in Germany and Ay in France.
- ^ City Population. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- ^ "Newton Abbot Racecourse". horse-racing.co.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
- ^ Teignbridge site. Retrieved 23 September 2019.