Milber

{{short description|Housing estate}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| official_name= Milber

| civil_parish = Newton Abbot

| country= England

| region= South West England

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| shire_district= Teignbridge

| shire_county= Devon

| hide_services= Yes

| population =7089

| population_ref =(2011 census)

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Milber is a suburban area of Newton Abbot and former civil parish, now in the parish of Newton Abbot, in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England. Much of the area comprises a housing estate at {{gbmapping|SX8770}}. It lies to the east of the town centre, on the opposite side of the A380 road. Milber contains mainly houses, but also a trading estate and some shops. The estate is part of the electoral ward called Buckland and Milber. The population of that ward at the 2011 census was 7,089.{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/buckland-and-milber-e05003595#sthash.WJiEsaVV.dpbs|title=Buckland and Milber ward 2011|accessdate= 18 February 2015}}

Its unusual 20th-century church of St Luke was designed by architect Arthur Campbell Martin & built as a result of a dream experienced by his brother William Keble Martin in 1931. It is partly circular in form with three naves and was completed in 1963.{{Cite book

| last = Harris

| first = Helen

| title = A Handbook of Devon Parishes

| publisher = Halsgrove

| location = Tiverton

| year = 2004

| isbn = 1-84114-314-6

| page = 118

}}

Martin, W. Keble (1968) Over the Hills ---. London: Michael Joseph; pp. 103-05

Some of the roads in Milber are named after trees - Hazel Close, Beechwood Avenue and Chestnut Drive being examples of this. The narrow, half mile-long, strip of Ben Stedham's Wood separates Milber from the suburbs of Aller and Newtake: the Iron Age hill fort of Milber Down is at the top of this wood.

A civil parish of Milber existed between 1901 and 1974. It was created covering an area from Haccombe with Combe parish that was transferred into the Newton Abbot Urban District on 1 April 1901.{{cite web |title=Newton Abbot Urban District |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10106679 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=1 August 2023}} The parish of Milber was classed as an urban parish and so never had a parish council, instead being administered directly by Newton Abbot Urban District Council. The civil parish of Milber was abolished on 1 April 1974 when the three parishes within Newton Abbot Urban District (Milber, Highweek and Wolborough) were united as a single parish called Newton Abbot within the new Teignbridge district.{{cite web |title=Devonshire (South Part): Diagram showing administrative boundaries, 1972 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241242118 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=1 August 2023}}{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Successor Parishes) (No. 2) Order 1973|year=1973|number=1939|access-date=1 August 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/newton%20abbot.html|title=Newton Abbot Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=15 August 2023}} In 1951 the parish had a population of 2260.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10169598/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Milber ExP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=15 August 2023}}