Blog - Bishopsteignton Heritage

Occupiers of Venn: 1249 – 1939

by Rowena Bradnam | Jul 19, 2019 | Places, Venn Farm

Venn was probably a family holding when Bishop Leofric received Tainton/Radway from King Edward. 13th Century 1249 The Bishop’s Records show that Walter le Thailleur held Venn for one fifth of a Knight’s fee. 14th...

Occupiers of ‘Town’: 1585 – 1939

by Rowena Bradnam | Jul 16, 2019 | Places, Town

16th Century 1585 The Burial Register records the burial of John Easton in Town. 1587 The Burial Register records the burial of Richard Alforde, loer (lawyer)...

Village Festival 2019 Heritage Scrapbook Project

by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Jul 9, 2019 | Events, Festivals and Carnivals

The story of Bishopsteignton can be written in many formats and as a Heritage Trust we aim to embrace all media methods to portray our village history. Our remit is not simply to store and digitise archive materials of this village in the past. Our lives and our...

The story so far – June 2019

by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Jul 9, 2019 | News

This last month has been very busy for the Heritage bods. Our base in the Wilson Room is now painted and carpeted, some furniture has been installed and we have made a start on equipping our future ‘HUB’. The archive boxes are being sorted and labelled so that we can...

Alice Mary Major

by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Jun 24, 2019 | People

Alice Mary was born in 1885 to John and Louisa Major, one of six children. The Majors owned and worked the blacksmith forge in Fore street, Bishopsteignton. Louisa and her daughters Alice and Lily worked at Kittoes House. On 31st August 1908 Alice married James...

WW2 D-Day Normandy 75th Anniversary Commemorations

by Jess Gibby | Jun 15, 2019 | Events, World War Two

Normandy D-Day 75th Anniversary When the invitation came for us to be in Normandy for June 6th 2019 staying with a French family we were thrilled. Five years ago my husband Rich was flying in the skies in a Lancaster with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. This...

Bishopsteignton video memories

by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Jun 4, 2019 | Events, Festivals and Carnivals

Annual Huntly Flower Show circa 1969 A brilliant piece of cinematic village history, which shows many village families having fun in the grounds of Huntly. Villagers entered flowers and vegetables that they had grown in their gardens. Some years the Boy Sea Scouts...

Bishopsteignton Village Festival

by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Jun 4, 2019 | Events, Festivals and Carnivals

Over the years The Bishopsteignton Village Festival has grown in reputation, size and stature. Many of the same people are still involved in the organisation and implementation of the festival and it still provides a huge draw for the residents of all ages. The...

Rails Through Bishopsteignton

by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 21, 2019 | Environment, Air, Rail, Transport

On 24 April 2019 Peter Wade gave a talk for Bishopsteignton Heritage entitled ‘Rails Through Bishopsteignton’, this article is a summary of that talk. 19th Century By 1844, the railway had reached Exeter from Bristol and the next section to Plymouth was soon being...

Bishopsteignton audio memories

by The Hub Team | Apr 26, 2019 | People, Oral Histories

BBC Radio Devon “Village Voices” Philip Gourd, 1920-2013 The Gourd family are well known in Bishopsteignton for being the family who ran the transport. Starting with a horse drawn cart the family business grew to embrace modern technology with buses,...