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Highweek, less commonly called Highweek Village, is a former village, now administratively part of the market town of Newton Abbot in South Devon, England. It is prominent and recognisable due to its high location on a ridge on the north edge of the town. Highweek is also a church parish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parish of Highweek )〕 The village is the centre of the electoral ward of Bradley. Its population at the 2011 census was 5,043. The Normans built a motte-and-bailey castle here and it probably remained occupied until the mid 13th century. The church, now a Grade I listed building, was consecrated in 1428 after the villagers petitioned the pope for their own graveyard. Today, the village has been absorbed into Newton Abbot, but it retains its village identity. == History == The first documentary reference to the place now known as Highweek is as ''Teyngewike'' in c. 1200. This referred to its position as a settlement (wick from Anglo-Saxon ''wic'') near the River Teign. By 1301 it was being called ''Heghwyk'', the reference to the prominent (high) hill on which it stands having taken over〔Gover, J. E. B., Mawer, A. & Stenton, F. M. (1931). ''The Place-Names of Devon''. (English Place-Name Society. Vol viii.) Part I. Cambridge University Press; pp. 472–73.〕 though the name ''Teignweek'' was still in use as late as 1850. Highweek stands in an area which experienced invasion and settlement in around 700 AD by the Saxons and then by the Danes in 1001 AD, when they sacked and pillaged the nearby village of Kingsteignton. In the village is a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork known as Castle Dyke, that was built to protect the manor of Teignwick. It is a scheduled monument that is included in the "At Risk" register,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scheduled Monuments at Risk - Castle Dyke, Newton Abbot, Teignbridge, Devon )〕 but still stands tall "...crowned by two surviving pines."〔Smith, Richard B. L. (August 1991) ''The Story of All Saints’ Church Highweek'' (Parish Information leaflet)〕 The parts of the Hundred of Teignbridge—including Teignwick—that lay to the west of the River Teign were owned by the king, but in 1237 Henry III granted them to Sir Theobald de Englishville. De Englishville apparently never married and had no children, and shortly before his death in 1262 he conveyed his lands to his nephew Robert Bushel, who held them until his death in 1269. This was apparently an early death, for he left as his heir a son, named Theobald, aged only four years. Theobald's guardians were Henry and Matilda de Bickleigh and it is likely that they abandoned Castle Dyke in favour of a new manor house built in the nearby valley of the River Lemon around this time. During the 13th century the settlement north of the River Lemon became known as Newton Bushel after the Bushel family. In 1402 they were succeeded as lords of the manor by the Yardes.〔''Newton Abbot - Town Council Official Guide''. Newton Abbot 1990s edition, "K.L / H.P Ltd./ D.M.C / 9006 Printed in Great Britain" ISBN 0-7140-2705-7〕 Richard Yarde built most of the present Bradley Manor, though a few remnants of the late 13th century Bushel building still survive.〔 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 Abbot and is administratively part of Newton Abbot under Newton Abbot Town Council and Teignbridge District Council. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Highweek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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