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Highweek Village is part of the South Devon market town of Newton Abbot, but also has a village identity and is prominent and recognisable due to its geography. The Village has a strong community atmosphere with friendly residents and a relaxed atmosphere. It is commonly known locally simply as 'Highweek'. There is a pub, the ‘Highweek Inn’, Highweek Garage ^[1], Highweek Village Hall ^[2], a late medieval church, and within the Parish boundary there are two secondary schools with sixth forms, Coombeshead College ^[3] and Newton Abbot College ^[4], and St Mary the Virgin, Abbotsbury church. At the meeting point of the road of Highweek Village and Coombeshead Road there are rustic cottages and terraced houses. There was a village post office into the 1990s, opposite the Highweek Inn at the top of Pitt Hill Road, but it is now residential.

=== Heading text === Geography === Heading text === Highweek Village has picturesque views perched on a hilly ridge overlooking the South Devon market town of Newton Abbot, of which it is now part, the Teign Estuary and Bovey Basin. To the north east, Haytor and surrounding parts of Dartmoor dominate the skyline some 8 miles in distance from Highweek and the Haldon Hills to towards Exeter some 9 miles away. There is the unusual cone shaped hill of Daracombe Beacon immediately north of Highweek overlooking the ball clay opencast pit of Ringslade Quarry, Howton Road and the 1st Highweek Village Scout Group ^[5] building. Daracombe Beacon is one of the highest points in Newton Abbot at 82 metres ^[6] with a cluster of trees on it peak. Cattle can often be seen grazing on the Beacon comically gripping the steep slopes. There is also the high point immediately north of the road of Gaze Hill which contains a hidden covered municipal water tank. There is a lovely stone wall which sweeps out of Highweek along part of Howton Road towards the Seale Hayne complex, now used by Dame Hannah’s at Seale Hayne.

History - Highweek derives from the Saxon name of ‘High Settlement’. Highweek stands in an area which experienced Saxon invasion and settlement in around 700 AD and then the Danes in 1001 AD, when they sacked and pillage the nearby village of Kingsteignton. In Highweek there is the Castle Dyke site, a Norman Motte and Bailey earthwork, which still stands tall “...crowned by two surviving pines.”^[7] The Castle was built to protect the Manor of Teignwick. Sir Theobold de Englishville handed authority of Teignwick (Highweek) to his nephew Robert Bushel and the settlement on the north of the River Lemon became known as Newton Bushel which is included in the wider Parish of Highweek. Newton Bushel combined with New Town of the Abbots (of Torre Abbey) from the south side of the River Lemon to into 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. All Saints Highweek

The church, All Saints Highweek is a Church of England place of worship in the Diocese of Exeter, known as Highweek Parish. ^[8] All Saints shares parishioners in rotating services with the other church in the parish, St Mary the Virgin Abbotsbury Church. All Saints church sits proudly on a steep sided hill at the end of ridge which runs the length of the village, and is clearly visible for miles around facing St Mary’s Wolborough Church on the opposite side of Newton Abbot. All Saints has a magical atmosphere inside with some parts of the Church being consecrated by Edmund Lacey, Bishop of Exeter on 19th April, 1428. The 16 meter square clock tower on the west end of the nave proudly carries a flag pole and a lit star at Christmas.

• Church of England directory
• 1st Highweek Scout Group