Keyberry Park was once an independent settlement in Devonshire, now a district of Newton Abbot.
Etymology Its name is first attested around 1200 as Kauebiri and Cawbiry. The second element of this name is agreed to be the Old English word , meaning "fortification". The first element was long thought to be an Old English personal name Cāfa,J. E. B. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Devon, 2 vols (Cambridge: CUP, 1931–32), II 524. but in the 2020s it was suggested that the first element was an Old English common noun , meaning "jackdaw" or "corvid". Thus the name once meant either "Cāfa's fortification" or "jackdaw fortification".
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