Highweek, Devon Family History Guide
Highweek is a chapelry of Kingsteignton Ancient Parish in Devon.
Other places in the parish include: Newton Abbot All Saints, Newton Bushnell, and Newton Abbot.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
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 Exeter. The church is good; and there are charities £51.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Highweek, 1841-1891
Church Records
Highweek : baptisms 1813-1839 Author: Devon Family History Society
Highweek burial registers, 1813-1837 Author: Devon Family History Society
Highweek marriage registers, 1813-1837 Author: Devon Family History Society
Deanery of Moreton Author: Devon Family History Society
Court records
Taxation
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Newton Abbot
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Moreton
- Poor Law Union: Newton Abbot
- Hundred: Teignbridge
- Province: Canterbury