Teignmouth

Den Crescent and its central Assembly Rooms, laid out in 1826 by Andrew Patey of Exeter, still survive relatively unchanged today. Over the years, the building was used as a theatre, a dance hall, a conference centre and a billiards hall. In 1934 it was converted into the Riviera Cinema, in which guise it continued until 2000; part of the building has now been converted into flats. In 2016, the lease for the historic auditorium was taken over by the Mars Hill Church, with the intention of restoring it as both a cinema and a music and arts facility. The church of St Michael the Archangel is in the east of the town. St. Scholastica's Abbey (now converted to flats), on the road to Dawlish,…

Although reduced from its heyday, Teignmouth still receives considerable numbers of holidaymakers, especially day-trippers. It is twinned with the French town Perros-Guirec. The resort has a sea beach and Teignmouth Pier, with amusement arcade and rides. The beach wraps around the spit at the head of the river Teign, providing a river beach commonly known as the Back Beach on the estuary side; this overlooks the harbour with its moorings for many pleasure craft and has views up the estuary to Dartmoor. An 18 mi long waymarked route, known as the Templer Way, has been created between Haytor on Dartmoor and Shaldon. It closely follows the route of George Templer's granite tramway, his father…