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Highweek history
Saxon
Highweek stands in an area which experienced invasion and settlement in about 700 AD by the Saxons and then by the Danes in 1001 AD, when they sacked and pillaged the nearby village of Kingsteignton. The Anglo-Saxon suffix -wic means “a settlement”, with the original Saxon place name Teignwic.
Norman
The manor, anciently called Teignwic, is not listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the village is a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork now known as Castle Dyke, a scheduled monument included in the “At Risk” register.
12th century
The manor of Teignwick was given by King Henry II (1154-1189) to “John, the son of Lucas his butler” Following the Norman revolt it was forfeited to the crown and was re-granted by King John (1199-1216) to Eustace de Courtenay.
13th 14th centuries
The earliest surviving documentary reference to the manor is as Teyngewike in about 1200. The part of the Hundred of Teignbridge, including Teignwick, which lay to the west of the River Teign, was owned by the king, and in 1246 King Henry III granted these lands, including Dipford, to Sir Theobald de Englishville. He appears not to have married and as he had no children, he conveyed his lands to his “kinsman or foster child” Robert Bushel (d.1269), whom he had brought up.
15th century
In 1402 the AtYard (later Yarde) family acquired the manor of Highweek. The first holder was Thomas Yarde, son of Roger Atyard by his wife Elizanta (alias Elisote) Bushel. His son and heir was Richard Yarde who married Joan Ferrers, the heiress of Churston Ferrers.
Later history
Newton Bushel combined with New Town of the Abbots (of Torre Abbey) from the south side of the River Lemon to form what became known as Newton Abbot. Highweek is now joined to Newton.
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