Tedburn St Mary is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, 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]
The Grade II* listed church of St Mary [2] is at Town Barton, the former site of the village which is northwest 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. [3]
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.
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