Newton Abbot

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Newton Abbot
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
Civil parish	Newton Abbot
District	Teignbridge
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
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
UK Parliament	Newton Abbot
List of places UK England Devon 50°31′44″N 3°36′36″W / 50.529°N 3.610°W / 50.529; -3.610

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.