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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wolborough like this:
WOOLBOROUGH, a parish in Newton-Abbot district, Devon; containing chief part of Newton-Abbot town. Post town, Newton-Abbot. Acres, 1,231. Real property, £15,437; of which £37 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 3,227; in 1861, 4,427. Houses, 853. The living is a donative in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £235. Patron, the Earl of Devon. See Newton-Abbot.
Wolborough is now part of TEIGNBRIDGE District. Click here for graphs and data of how TEIGNBRIDGE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wolborough itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wolborough, in Teignbridge and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23251
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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