The great news this month is that we are holding a virtual Xmas social, hosted from the HUB, on Tuesday December 15th at 7pm, on the Zoom platform. We will be telling you about all the exciting new projects we are about to launch for 2021 and how you can get involved....
The Spitfire Flies Home

The Spitfire Flies Home

The great news this month is that the Bishopsteignton Village VE-75 Knitted Spitfire has finally found its forever home, flying high from the ceiling of the HUB at the Community Centre. Along with that we are pleased to publish an article about its creation and...

The VE-75 Knitted Spitfire

How the Group Developed The knitting group was set up and met before I came to the village.  Called ‘Knit & tinK’ (tinK is Knit written backwards to indicate when we go wrong and have to unravel our stitches), the group meet in a local pub every month. We...

The Bishopsteignton Village Show 1995-2020

The Beginnings It all began September 1995. When the village celebrated the 50th anniversaries of VE Day and VJ Day, which proved a great success, it prompted the idea of holding a village show.  A committee was formed to set up the organisation of a Village Show that...
Philip Coombe

Philip Coombe

Early Life Before the First World War, Philip trained as plumber and heating engineer. In 1913 he went to Canada with his eldest brother Daniel (a.k.a. Peter) Coombe (born 1887). According to his nephew, Robert Coysh, Philip worked in the Canadian Pacific Railway...

The Coombe Family

While ‘Coombe’ seems a common Devonshire family and place name, the first known Coombe of Molly’s family had arrived in Bishopsteignton by 1870. Molly’s Great Grandfather, William Winser Coombe (1818-1899) was, according to several censuses, a Miller...
The Molly Coombe Memorial Lecture 2020

The Molly Coombe Memorial Lecture 2020

Due to our present situation Bishopsteignton Heritage has taken innovative steps to bring you this year’s Molly Coombe Memorial lecture. We cannot meet in person but we can meet you virtually. Alex Graeme of Unique Devon Tours is preparing a fascinating talk for...

Parish Census Search Tool As part of our ongoing Online Database Interface (ODIN) project we have created a search tool enabling you to search the Bishopsteignton Parish Censuses 1841 – 1939. Let us know what you think! Parish Census Search...