Newton Abbot
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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. It grew rapidly
View over central Newton Abbot taken from Wolborough Hill, July 2005
Newton Abbot railway station
Newton's Place, formerly St Leonard's Church: Town Council's headquarters since 2021.
Photochrom of St Leonard's Tower, 1895
Forde House
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Forde House, now known as Old Forde House, is a Grade I listed former manor house dating in back to c. 1550 in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. The building was substantially enlarged c. 1610 and is note
Old Forde House, south front
South front viewed from Torquay Road
Stained glass heraldic escutcheon at Forde House: dexter: Argent, masonry sable a chief indented of the second a mullet or for difference (Reynell) impaling sinister: Argent two bars gules overall a lion rampant or pellety (Brandon). These arms represent the marriage between Sir Richard Reynell (d.1633), builder of Forde House, and Lucy Brandon
Stained glass at Forde House showing arms of William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (1709–1762), (Courtenay quartering Redvers, Earl of Devon), impaling Finch: Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable (his wife was Lady Frances Finch (d.1761), daughter of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford). Below is the Latin motto of Courtenay Ubi Lapsus quid feci ("Where have I slipped, what have I done")