Everyday Life and Society in Medieval Bishopsteignton

Everyday Life and Society in Medieval Bishopsteignton

As the Bishop’s Estate grew throughout the 13th-Century in the legacy of the Saxon receptor of the Bishopric in 1050, Leofric, Bishops’, or the Latin equivalent ‘Episcopi’, was added to form ‘Bishop’s Teynton’. This linguistic development towards ‘Teynton’ denotes the...