Kingsteignton, Devon
Historical Description
Kingsteignton, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the river Teign, 1½ mile NNE of Newton Abbot station on the G.W.R., was originally called Teignton Regis, is a large place with a commodious wharf, and exports very great quantities of pipe clay and potters' clay. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newton Abbot. Acreage, 3945; population of civil parish, 1808; of the ecclesiastical, 1705. The chief landowner is Lord Clifford. Green Hill and Teignbridge House are chief residences. The climate was formerly remarkable for agues and other diseases, but has been corrected by means of drainage. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £330 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is ancient, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels and charities. Gale the theological writer was a native. King Stemdale, an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1851 from the civil parishes of Bakewell and Hope, Derbyshire. It is on the river Wye, 9 miles NW of Bakewell, and 3 from Buxton station on the M.R. and L. & N.W.R. Post town, Buxton. Population, 222. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £136 with residence. The church, erected in 1848, is a small building in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Devon | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | King's Teignton St. Michael | |
| Hundred | Teignbridge | |
| Poor Law union | Newton-Abbott |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the South West Heritage Trust, Parochial Church Council, and Devon Family History Society have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Kingsteignton
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kingsteignton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Teignton, King's (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Kingsteignton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Devon online:
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Preston (Kings Steignton)Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1564, with additions from the earlier visitation of 1531, is online.
The Visitations of the County of Devon, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by Lieutant-Colonel J.L. Vivian, published for the author by Henry S. Eland, Exeter 1895 is online.