Bickington


Bickington is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, on the east edge of the Dartmoor National Park. At the 2001 census it had a population of 311. The village is about five miles west of Newton Abbot, on the River Lemon. The church is 15th century; its lychgate has a room over it.

Amenities

The village appeared on the BBC's Countryfile programme in November 2017, where its apparent decline was the subject of the feature. Local media expanded on the BBC feature.
A book about Bickington, The Book of Bickington, was published in 2000.