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52-487: Highweek (anciently called Teignwick (alias Teyngewike, Tingwike, Teyngewyk , etc.)), less commonly called Highweek Village is an ecclesiastical parish , former manor and village, now a suburb of Newton Abbot , but still retaining its village identity, 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

104-693: A diocese or see . Parishes within a diocese may be grouped into a deanery or vicariate forane (or simply vicariate ), overseen by a dean or vicar forane , or in some cases by an archpriest . Some churches of the Anglican Communion have deaneries as units of an archdeaconry . An outstation is a newly-created congregation, a term usually used where the church is evangelical , or a mission and particularly in African countries, but also historically in Australia. They exist mostly within

156-463: A vicar or rector , owing to the vagaries of the feudal tithe system: rectories usually having had greater income) and perhaps supported by one or more curates or deacons - although as a result of ecclesiastical pluralism some parish priests might have held more than one parish living , placing a curate in charge of those where they do not reside. Now, however, it is common for a number of neighbouring parishes to be placed under one benefice in

208-511: A ward of Henry de Bickleigh and his wife Matilda. It is likely that they abandoned Castle Dyke in favour of a new manor house they built in the nearby valley of the River Lemon . The manor of Teignwick/Highwick was held by the Bushel family for nine generations until the death of John Bushel, the last in the male line, during the reign of King Richard II (1377-1399). During the 13th century

260-485: A civil parish and is formally recognised as the level of local government below a district council . The traditional structure of the Church of England with the parish as the basic unit has been exported to other countries and churches throughout the Anglican Communion and Commonwealth but does not necessarily continue to be administered in the same way. The parish is also the basic level of church administration in

312-497: A little lower down. The port of Teignmouth , just inside the mouth of the estuary, is visited by ships mostly handling clay, timber and grain. The lower reaches of the river are navigable up to Newton Abbot , although now only to shallow draft boats and those less than 2.9 metres high due to the Shaldon Bridge. The tidal Whitelake Channel of the river connects it to two disused short canals that were both built to serve

364-582: A local grouping of Methodist churches that share one or more ministers (which in the United Kingdom would be called a circuit ) is referred to as a parish. River Teign The River Teign / ˈ t iː n / is a river in the county of Devon , England. It is 31 mi (50 km) long and rises on Dartmoor , becomes an estuary just below Newton Abbot and reaches the English Channel at Teignmouth . The river-name 'Teign'

416-435: A parish church, each parish may maintain auxiliary organizations and their facilities such as a rectory , parish hall , parochial school , or convent , frequently located on the same campus or adjacent to the church. Normally, a parish comprises all Catholics living within its geographically defined area, but non-territorial parishes can also be established within a defined area on a personal basis for Catholics belonging to

468-616: A particular rite , language, nationality, or community. An example is that of personal parishes established in accordance with the 7 July 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum for those attached to the pre- Vatican II liturgy. The Church of England 's geographical structure uses the local parish church as its basic unit. The parish system survived the Reformation with the Anglican Church's secession from Rome remaining largely untouched; thus, it shares its roots with

520-635: A review into the organisation of the Church and make recommendations as to its future shape. The group published its report ("Church in Wales Review") in July 2012 and proposed that parishes should be reorganised into larger Ministry Areas (Ardaloedd Gweinidogaeth). It stated that: "The parish system... is no longer sustainable" and suggested that the Ministry Areas should each have a leadership team containing lay people as well as clergy, following

572-524: 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. 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

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624-433: A subsidiary place of worship to the main parish church. In England civil parishes and their governing parish councils evolved in the 19th century as ecclesiastical parishes began to be relieved of what became considered to be civic responsibilities. Thus their boundaries began to diverge. The word "parish" acquired a secular usage. Since 1895, a parish council elected by public vote or a (civil) parish meeting administers

676-633: Is Gurrington slate of Famennian age (a late subdivision of the Devonian period), with small outliers of resistant spilites forming both the ridge on which the church stands and the hills north of the village, such as the aforementioned Daracombe Beacon. By 1427 the parishioners had built a chapel at Highweek, but they had to carry their dead about three miles (5 km) to the parish church in Kingsteignton . They petitioned Pope Martin V for their own graveyard because "the tides and rivers, and

728-653: Is crossed by a clapper bridge near Teigncombe. On its bank near the confluence with the Walla Brook is the Tolmen Stone that is perforated by a large circular hole. The second source rises near Grey Wethers and forms the shorter South Teign which flows through the Fernworthy Forest and a reservoir of the same name. The two rivers combine at Leigh Bridge near Chagford to form the Teign, which leaves

780-423: Is divided into parishes, each with their own central church called the parish church , where religious services take place. Some larger parishes or parishes that have been combined under one parish priest may have two or more such churches, or the parish may be responsible for chapels (or chapels of ease ) located at some distance from the mother church for the convenience of distant parishioners. In addition to

832-466: Is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 739, where it appears as Teng . The name is pre-Roman, related to the Welsh taen meaning 'sprinkling', or 'spread out' and means simply 'stream'. The river lends its name to several places, including Teigncombe, Drewsteignton , Canonteign , Teigngrace , Kingsteignton (at one time, one of England's largest villages), Bishopsteignton , Teignharvey , and

884-456: The Catholic and Anglican parishes. The Anglican Diocese of Cameroon describes their outstations as the result of outreach work "initiated, sponsored and supervised by the mother parishes". Once there is a big enough group of worshippers in the same place, the outstation in named by the bishop of the diocese. They are run by " catechists /evangelists" or lay readers, and supervised by

936-554: The Catholic Church 's system described below. Parishes may extend into different counties or hundreds and historically many parishes comprised extra outlying portions in addition to its principal district, usually being described as 'detached' and intermixed with the lands of other parishes. Church of England parishes nowadays all lie within one of 42 dioceses divided between the provinces of Canterbury , 30 and York , 12. Each parish normally has its own parish priest (either

988-575: The Church of Scotland . Spiritual oversight of each parish church in Scotland is responsibility of the congregation's Kirk Session . Patronage was regulated in 1711 ( Patronage Act ) and abolished in 1874, with the result that ministers must be elected by members of the congregation. Many parish churches in Scotland today are "linked" with neighbouring parish churches served by a single minister. Since

1040-584: The Teign Estuary and the Bovey Basin . To the north west, Haytor and surrounding parts of Dartmoor dominate the skyline, and to the north east the Haldon Hills some 9 miles (14 km) away towards Exeter can be seen. Immediately north of the village there is the unusual cone shaped hill of Daracombe Beacon that overlooks the ball clay opencast pit of Ringslade Quarry, Howton Road and

1092-556: The Tottiford, Kennick, and Trenchford Reservoirs . Passing Chudleigh and Chudleigh Knighton , the river flows through the Bovey Basin where ball clay is extracted, then between Kingsteignton and Newton Abbot , where, during its operation from 1898 to 1974, the Newton Abbot power station drew its cooling water from the river, discharging it back into the River Lemon , which joins the Teign downstream. Below Newton Abbot

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1144-487: The abolition of parishes as a unit of civil government in Scotland in 1929, Scottish parishes have purely ecclesiastical significance and the boundaries may be adjusted by the local Presbytery. The Church in Wales was disestablished in 1920 and is made up of six dioceses. It retained the parish system and parishes were also civil administration areas until communities were established in 1974, but did not necessarily share

1196-617: The ball clay trade in the area. The Stover Canal heads to Teigngrace (with the River Teign also supplying the header pond); it was built to serve ball clay operations, but later it was the terminus of the Haytor Granite Tramway , carrying granite. The second connection was to the Hackney Canal , only 0.6 miles long, that connected the river to a ball clay quarry at Hackney Clay Cellars in Kingsteignton (now

1248-618: The 15th century, and it also had a rood screen that was said to be "beautiful" until it was mutilated in 1786 and later removed completely. Today, the church is a Church of England place of worship in the Diocese of Exeter , known as Highweek Parish. All Saints shares parishioners in rotating services with the other church in the parish, St Mary the Virgin, Abbotsbury, Church. It is a Grade I listed building . Highweek stands in an area which experienced invasion and settlement in about 700 AD by

1300-565: The 1st Highweek Village Scout Group building. The Beacon has a cluster of trees on its peak and is one of the highest points in Newton Abbot at 82 m. Another high point immediately north of the road of Gaze Hill contains a hidden covered municipal water tank. The village gives its name to a geological unit (the Highweek Unit) that extends for at least 8 km westwards from the village. The geology underlying Highweek itself

1352-616: The Abbots (of Torre Abbey) from the south side of the River Lemon to form what became known as Newton Abbot. When elected parish and district councils were established in 1894, Highweek was initially given a parish council and included in the Newton Abbot Rural District . The parish council lasted for less than seven years; in 1901 Highweek was transferred into the urban district of Newton Abbot. After 1901 Highweek

1404-641: The Norman revolt it was forfeited to the crown and was re-granted by King John (1199-1216) to Eustace de Courtenay, apparently a relative of Renaud de Courtenay (d.1194), ancestor of the Earls of Devon . 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 were owned by

1456-572: 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 thus signifying "settlement by the River Teign . The manor, anciently called Teignwic (alias Teignwick, Teyngewike, Teyngewyk , etc.) is not listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, as it

1508-454: The charge of a priest who conducts services by rotation, with additional services being provided by lay readers or other non-ordained members of the church community. A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England , and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel which acted as

1560-494: The chief residence of the locality became Bradley House. 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 having been built after the villagers petitioned the pope for their own graveyard. Highweek is on a ridge that overlooks the South Devon market town of Newton Abbot ,

1612-710: The committee of every local congregation that handles staff support is referred to as the committee on Pastor-Parish Relations. This committee gives recommendations to the bishop on behalf of the parish/congregation since it is the United Methodist Bishop of the episcopal area who appoints a pastor to each congregation. The same is true in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church . In New Zealand,

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1664-547: The creator parish or archdeaconry . Outstations are not self-supporting, and in poor areas often consist of a very simple structure. The parish priest visits as often as possible. If and when the community has grown enough, the outstation may become a parish and have a parish priest assigned to it. In the Catholic Church, each parish normally has its own parish priest (in some countries called pastor or provost ), who has responsibility and canonical authority over

1716-410: The king, and in 1246 King Henry III granted these lands, including Dipford, to Sir Theobald de Englishville (d.1262). He appears not to have married and as he had no children, shortly before his death in 1262 and with royal licence dated 1261, he conveyed his lands to his "kinsman or foster child" Robert Bushel (d.1269), whom he had brought up. His heir was his 4 year-old son Theobald Bushel, who became

1768-629: The late 13th century, the word parish comes from the Old French paroisse , in turn from Latin : paroecia , the Romanisation of the Ancient Greek : παροικία , romanized :  paroikia , "sojourning in a foreign land", itself from πάροικος ( paroikos ), "dwelling beside, stranger, sojourner", which is a compound of παρά ( pará ), "beside, by, near" and οἶκος ( oîkos ), "house". As an ancient concept,

1820-544: The moor on its eastern side, flowing beneath Castle Drogo in a steep-sided valley. Near Dunsford there is a nature reserve on the east bank. It then flows southwards at the east edge of the moor through a steep-sided valley along which ran the Teign Valley Line providing rail service to the villages in the vicinity until its closure in 1967. Near Trusham the Beadon Brook joins, bringing overspill from

1872-480: The mud of winter and the intense heat of summer" made the journey "both troublesome and dangerous to accomplish". The pope granted permission in a bull dated 14 May 1427, and the church and its churchyard were consecrated by Edmund Lacy , Bishop of Exeter on 19 April 1428. Until 1864 it remained a chapel of ease to Kingsteignton. All Saints has the Bradley aisle which was built by Richard Yarde of Bradley Manor in

1924-534: The parish had a population of 5626. Today Highweek has a public house called the Highweek Village Inn, a garage, village hall, and a late medieval church. Within the parish boundary there are two secondary schools with sixth forms, Coombeshead Academy and Newton Abbot College, and another church: St Mary the Virgin, Abbotsbury. At the meeting point of the road of Highweek Village and Coombeshead Road there are rustic cottages and terraced houses. There

1976-553: The parish. What in most English-speaking countries is termed the "parish priest" is referred to as the "pastor" in the United States , where the term "parish priest" is used of any priest assigned to a parish even in a subordinate capacity. These are called "assistant priests", "parochial vicars", " curates ", or, in the United States, "associate pastors" and "assistant pastors". Each diocese (administrative region)

2028-714: The principles of 'collaborative ministry'. Over the next decade, the six dioceses all implemented the report, with the final Ministry Areas being instituted in 2022. In the Diocese of St Asaph (Llanelwy), they are known as Mission Areas (Ardaloedd Cenhadaeth) In the United Methodist Church congregations are called parishes, though they are more often simply called congregations and have no geographic boundaries. A prominent example of this usage comes in The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church , in which

2080-470: The remains of the previous constructions. Mr. P. T. Taylor, who investigated the matter at the time, gave as his opinion that: the last or upper work was done in the sixteenth century, and that the red bridge had been built on the salt marsh in the thirteenth century; since which time there has been an accumulation of soil to the depth of ten feet. He supposes the wooden bridge to be old as the Conquest, and

2132-538: The river turns abruptly to the east and becomes tidal, widening to form the Teign Estuary, a large ria that reaches the English Channel at Teignmouth. Fingle Bridge is a Grade II* listed structure that crosses the river near Drewsteignton on Dartmoor. Until 1827 the most downstream bridge was Teign Bridge at Teigngrace. When it was being rebuilt in 1815 it became apparent that at least four successive bridges had been erected at various times with or over

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2184-523: The same boundaries. The reduction in the numbers of worshippers, and the increasing costs of maintaining often ancient buildings, led over time to parish reorganisation, parish groupings and Rectorial Benefices (merged parishes led by a Rector). In 2010, the Church in Wales engaged the Rt Rev Richard Harries (Lord Harries of Pentregarth), a former Church of England Bishop of Oxford; Prof Charles Handy; and Prof Patricia Peattie, to carry out

2236-465: The second largest settlement along its course, Teignmouth . However, the villages of Combeinteignhead and Stokeinteignhead , on the other side of the estuary from Bishopsteignton, are not named after the river. The River Teign rises on Dartmoor , as do many other major Devonian rivers. It has two separate sources: one rises at Teign Head, forming the North Teign which flows northeast where it

2288-532: The settlement north of the River Lemon became known as Newton Bushel after the Bushel family. By 1301 it was being called Heghwyk , the reference to the prominent (high) hill on which it stands having taken over though the name Teignweek was still in use as late as 1850. 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, heiress of Highweek. She

2340-505: The site of a retail park), through what is now Newton Abbot Racecourse . The river has been kayaked at least from Leigh Bridge (the confluence of the North and South Teign) at SX68358765 to Steps Bridge at SX80438835 , rated as grade 2 to 3. There is also a single high-grade, very technical drop. The Teign estuary is known for flounder fishing; a British record specimen was caught here in 1994. Other species include grey mullet in

2392-412: The surrounding district. Broadly speaking, the parish is the standard unit in episcopal polity of church administration, although parts of a parish may be subdivided as a chapelry , with a chapel of ease or filial church serving as the local place of worship in cases of difficulty to access the main parish church. In the wider picture of ecclesiastical polity, a parish comprises a division of

2444-566: The term "parish" occurs in the long-established Christian denominations: Catholic , Anglican Communion , the Eastern Orthodox Church , and Lutheran churches, and in some Methodist , Congregationalist and Presbyterian administrations. The eighth Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus (c. 602–690) appended the parish structure to the Anglo-Saxon township unit, where it existed, and where minsters catered to

2496-480: The white stone bridge to have been Roman work. In 1976 a viaduct was built across the top of the estuary just below Newton Abbot to carry the newly diverted A380 road . The viaduct is about 550 m (0.34 mi) long and has eleven spans. Since 1827 the lowest road crossing has been Shaldon Bridge that now carries the A379 near the mouth of the estuary. A passenger ferry between Teignmouth and Shaldon operates

2548-617: Was a village post office into the 1990s, opposite the Highweek Inn at the top of Pitt Hill Road, but it is now residential. Ecclesiastical parish By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ex officio , vested in him on his institution to that parish. First attested in English in

2600-502: Was the aunt and heiress of John Bushel, the last in the male line. His son and heir was Richard Yarde, Sheriff of Devon in 1442/3, who married Joan Ferrers, the heiress of Churston Ferrers , where a junior branch of the Yarde family was later seated. This Richard Yarde built most of the surviving manor house at Bradley , though a few remnants of the late 13th century Bushel building still survive. Newton Bushel combined with New Town of

2652-405: Was then a part of the large royal manor of Teintone (now Kingsteignton ). In the village is a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork now known as Castle Dyke, a scheduled monument included in the "At Risk" register, but still standing tall today "...crowned by a single surviving pine." The manor of Teignwick was given by King Henry II (1154-1189) to "John, the son of Lucas his butler". Following

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2704-501: Was therefore classed as an urban parish and so no longer had a parish council, instead being directly administered by Newton Abbot Urban District Council. The civil parish of Highweek was eventually abolished on 1 April 1974 when the three parishes within Newton Abbot Urban District (Highweek, Wolborough and Milber ) were united as a single parish called Newton Abbot within the new Teignbridge district. In 1951

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