Drewsteignton, Devon

Description
Drewsteignton, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Teign, at the E side of Dartmoor, 6 miles NNW of Moreton-Hampstead station on the G.W.R., and 10 SW by W of Crediton. It has a post office under Newton Abbot; money order and telegraph office, Chagford. Acreage, 6189 ; population, 776. The manor belonged at Domesday to Sheriff Baldwin, was held in the time of Henry II. by Drogo or Drewe de Teignton, and passed to the D'Abernons and the Carews. The scenery along the Teign here is highly romantic, and various spots have a cromlech, a logan stone, two Druidical circles, some traces of the Via Sacra or Druid Way, and an ancient British camp. The name Drewsteignton has often been regarded as a corruption of " Druids' Town on the Teign," but was really derived from Drewe de Teignton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £740 with residence. The church is a good old interesting structure, with turreted tower. Limestone quarries are worked.