Highweek | |
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All Saints Church, Highweek | |
Location within Devon | |
OS grid reference | SX846720 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NEWTON ABBOT |
Postcode district | TQ12 |
Dialling code | 01626 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Devon and Somerset |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Highweek (anciently called Teignwick (alias Teyngewike, Tingwike,[1] Teyngewyk, etc.)), less commonly called Highweek Village is an ecclesiastical parish,[2] former manor and village, now a suburb of Newton Abbot, but still retaining its village identity,[3] in the civil parish of Newton Abbot, in the Teignbridge district, in the county of Devon, England. It is prominent and recognisable due to its high location on a ridge on the north western edge of the town. The area is the centre of the modern electoral ward of Bradley. That ward's population at the 2011 census was 5,043.[4]
Following the Norman Conquest of 1066 the Normans built a motte-and-bailey castle here, of which only a dyke remains (giving it the local name of "Castle Dyke"), which probably remained occupied until the mid 13th century, when the chief residence of the locality became Bradley House.[5] The mediaeval parish church, dedicated to All Saints, now a Grade I listed building, was consecrated in 1428. Until 1864 it served as a chapel of ease to the parish church of adjoining Kingsteignton[6][7] having been built after the villagers petitioned the pope for their own graveyard.