Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HIGHWEEK

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Highweek CP/Ch       Newton Abbot RegD/PLU       Devon AncC
Place: Highweek

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