Milber is a suburban area of Newton Abbot and former civil parish, now in the parish of Newton Abbot, in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England. Much of the area comprises a housing estate at grid reference SX8770. It lies to the east of the town centre, on the opposite side of the A380 road. Milber contains mainly houses, but also a trading estate and some shops. The estate is part of the electoral ward called Buckland and Milber. The population of that ward at the 2011 census was 7,089.[1]
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.jpg) Church of St Luke the Evangelist | |
  Milber Location within Devon | |
| Population | 7,089 (2011 census) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Its unusual 20th-century church of St Luke was designed by architect Arthur Campbell Martin & built as a result of a dream experienced by his brother William Keble Martin in 1931. It is partly circular in form with three naves and was completed in 1963.[2] [3] Some of the roads in Milber are named after trees - Hazel Close, Beechwood Avenue and Chestnut Drive being examples of this. The narrow, half mile-long, strip of Ben Stedham's Wood separates Milber from the suburbs of Aller and Newtake: the Iron Age hill fort of Milber Down is at the top of this wood.
A civil parish of Milber existed between 1901 and 1974. It was created covering an area from Haccombe with Combe parish that was transferred into the Newton Abbot Urban District on 1 April 1901.[4] The parish of Milber was classed as an urban parish and so never had a parish council, instead being administered directly by Newton Abbot Urban District Council. The civil parish of Milber was abolished on 1 April 1974 when the three parishes within Newton Abbot Urban District (Milber, Highweek and Wolborough) were united as a single parish called Newton Abbot within the new Teignbridge district.[5][6][7] In 1951 the parish had a population of 2260.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Buckland and Milber ward 2011". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ Harris, Helen (2004). A Handbook of Devon Parishes. Tiverton: Halsgrove. p. 118. ISBN 1-84114-314-6.
- ^ Martin, W. Keble (1968) Over the Hills ---. London: Michael Joseph; pp. 103-05
- ^ "Newton Abbot Urban District". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ "Devonshire (South Part): Diagram showing administrative boundaries, 1972". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ "The Local Government (Successor Parishes) (No. 2) Order 1973", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1973/1939, retrieved 1 August 2023
- ^ "Newton Abbot Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ "Population statistics Milber ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
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