Coffinswell is a small village in South Devon, England, just off the A380, the busy Newton Abbot to Torquay road.[1] The village lies in a rural valley surrounded by farmland, and has many traditional Devon cob and thatch cottages.Lanes and tracks lead to the neighbouring hamlet of Daccombe and over the ridge towards Haccombe and the River Teign approximately 3 miles north over undulating land.Traditional Devon hedgerows form field boundaries, and have existed at least since Norman times.[6] Sarah Buck, the first woman President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, (2008) lives in the village.