Towns list
Standing at the head of the Teign Estuary and as home to the South Devon Railway locomotive works, the historic market town of Newton Abbot grew rapidly during the Victorian era and still enjoys a strategic position on the main railway line to...
Plympton is an ancient Stannary town, an important trading centre in the past for locally mined tin and, until the River Plym silted up, a seaport, at which point trade moved down river to Plymouth.
The town is actually older than Plymouth...
Dating from the eighth century and located within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty the small market town of Modbury, some 12 miles to the east of Plymouth and about 5 miles from the South Devon coast, lies surrounded by rolling...
This small, largely unspoilt and photogenic riverside settlement lies in a steep wooded valley on the banks of the River Dart, approximately two miles upstream from Dartmouth, well-sheltered from the prevailing south westerly winds.
Located just to the west of the A38 Devon Expressway on the southern slopes of Dartmoor the ancient stannary town of Ashburton lies roughly half way between Plymouth and Exeter. As the largest town within the Dartmoor National Park, housing a...
