Highweek
Highweek is on a ridge that overlooks the South Devon market town of Newton Abbot, the Teign Estuary and the Bovey Basin.The geology underlying Highweek itself 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.They petitioned Pope Martin V for their own graveyard because "the tides and rivers, and the mud of winter and the intense heat of summer" made the journey "both troublesome and dangerous to accomplish".[15] In the village is a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork now known as Castle Dyke,[16] a scheduled monument included in the "At Risk" register,[17] but still standing tall today "...crowned by a single surviving pine.He appears not to have married and as he had no children, shortly before his death in 1262 and with royal licence[27] dated 1261,[28] he conveyed his lands to his "kinsman or foster child"[1][29] Robert Bushel (d.1269), whom he had brought up.[35] The first holder was Thomas Yarde,[36] son of Roger AtYard by his wife Elizanta (alias Elisote[36]) Bushel, heiress of Highweek.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.
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