Tedburn St Mary

Tedburn St Mary is a village in Devon, England, situated approximately 8 miles west of Exeter. It has a population of approximately 1500. The village is the principal population centre of the electoral ward called Teignbridge North. The population of the ward at the 2011 census is 2,715.[1]

Tedburn church
The cemetery, established in 1886

The church of St Mary is at Town Barton, the former site of the village which is north of the present one. The west tower has diagonal buttresses and a polygonal stair turret. The nave is unusually wide; the north transept and the north aisle may be 14th century. The chancel was rebuilt in 1868.[2]

Edward Gee was rector of Tedburn St Mary from 1599 to 1618.

Tedburn St Mary won the Calor Village of the Year competition in 2001.

See also

References
  1. "Teignbridge North ward 2011". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  2. Pevsner, N. (1952) South Devon. Harmondsworth: Penguin; pp. 278-79

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