Teignmouth
a seaport and watering place of South Devon, England; 15 miles S. of Exeter; on the N. bank of the mouth of the Teign, here spanned by a bridge (1827) 557 yards long. Numerous villas have sprung up on the hills to the N. and along the "Den," a public lawn stretching three-fourths of a mile above the beach, and a promenade pier was constructed (1866). The two Anglican churches, St. Michael (with a good chancel, 1872) and St. James, are poor edifices of the early part of the 19th century; but a fine Roman Catholic church, in Geometrical Decorated style, has been built (1878) in connection with St. Scholastica's Abbey (1865). Other buildings are the public assembly rooms (1826), theater (1849), market house, public baths, etc. Beyond shipbuilding and fishing Teignmouth has no special industries, but there is a considerable trade. The exports are principally pipe and potter's clay and granite, and the imports, coal, culm, timber, etc.
Teignmouth was burnt by the Danes TELEGRAPH (930) and French (1338 and 1690), on the last occasion losing 116 houses. Pop. about 9,000.