Description
Highweek, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Teign, and 1 mile from Newton Abbot station on the G.W.R. Post town, Newton Abbot. Acreage, 2524; population of the civil parish, 2430; of the ecclesiastical, 2411. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
