In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Highweek like this:
HIGHWEEK, a parish in Newton-Abbot district, Devon; on Icknield street, the river Teign, and the Moreton-Hampstead railway, near the South Devon railway, 1 mile NW of Newton-Bushel. Post town, Newton-Abbot. Acres, 2, 422. Real property, £7, 324; of which £71 are in fisheries, and £210 in gas works. Pop., in 1851, 1, 398; in 1861, 1, 571. Houses, 345. The property is subdivided. A triple-ditched camp is at Milberdown. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £330. Patron, the Bishop of ExeterThe church is good; and there are charities £51.
Highweek through time
Highweek is now part of Teignbridge district. Click here for graphs and data of how Teignbridge has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Highweek itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Highweek, in Teignbridge and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2392
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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