Crediton
Crediton is a town and also civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the joint with the A3072 roadway to Tiverton, about 7 miles (11 kilometres) north west of Exeter. It has a population of 6,837, increasing to 7,835 at the 2011 Census. Crediton has 2 selecting wards (Boniface and Lawrence). The consolidated population of these wards at the 2011 Census was 7,600. The town is located in the slim vale of the River Creedy, between 2 steep hills as well as is divided into two parts, the north or old town (Peoples park, QECC and so on) and also the south and also east or new community. (QECC Barnfield, Saxon Close etc.) In the early 20th century shoe-making, tanning, agricultural profession, tin-plating and the manufacture of confectionery and also cider had actually superseded the former big woollen and also serge sectors. The creamery and also dairy in Crediton has always been located beside the church, yet to enable its item to be dispersed further, the business ran a transport depot that lay in the goods lawn of the train terminal. Everyday, a train of three or even more Milk Tank Wagons would be filled up from trucks, and then taken to London by either the Great Western Railway or the Southern Railway. Express Dairies sold the creamery and also a comparable unit in Kirkcudbright, Scotland in July 2002 to Milk Web link, which both by that time generated UHT milk.