Teignmouth

Teignmouth is a large seaside town, fishing port and civil parish in the English county of Devon, situated on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign about 12 miles south of Exeter. It had a populace of 14,749 at the last enumeration. In 1690, it was the last place in England to be attacked by a remote power. From the 1800s onwards, the town quickly developed in size from an angling port related with the Newfoundland cod industry to an elegant resort of some note in Georgian occasions, with further extension after the opening of the South Devon Railway in 1846.

Today, its port still works and the town remains a well known ocean side occasion area. The principal record of Teignmouth, Tengemuoa, which means mouth of the stream, was in 1044. In any case settlements close by are bore witness to before, with the banks of the Teign estuary having been in Saxon hands since something like 682, a fight between the Ancient Britons and Saxons being recorded on Haldon in 927, and Danish assaults having happened on the Teign estuary in 1001. The town is the home of Teignmouth A.F.C. whose first group at present play in the South West Peninsula League and holds play in the South Devon League division two.