Newton St Cyres (/ˈsaɪərz/, like "sires") is a village, civil parish former manor and former ecclesiastical parish in Mid Devon, in the English county of Devon, located between Crediton and Exeter.
[2] Almost destroyed by fire in the early 1960s,[3] its main point of interest is the Parish Church, built in the 15th century and dedicated to the martyrs St. Cyriac and his mother St.
[5] It contains the monument with standing effigy of John Northcote (1570-1632) of Hayne, lord of the manor of Newton St Cyres.
Newton St Cyres railway station is on the Tarka Line from Exeter to Barnstaple and the Dartmoor Line from Exeter to Okehampton, but is located approximately 0.5 miles outside the village centre, and receives an infrequent service.
[6] The manor of Newton St Cyres was briefly the property of Jacques Granado, a Flemish knight at the Tudor court.