Bishopsteignton is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Exminster Hundred. It falls within Kenn Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 673 in 1801 1076 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 144 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Newton Abbot Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website

Maps: The image below is of the Bishopsteignton area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 110/5,6 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 110NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX910737. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX97SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Bishopsteignton as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

BISHOPSTEIGNTON is a large parish on the N. side of the Teign estuary. It belonged to the bishops of Exeter from before the Norman conquest and was one of their richest manors. They had one of their numerous "palaces" or country residences here, at Radway just NE. of the village, but only a little 14th century walling remains of this. The village is large, with a good deal of very pleasant early 19th century building in white stucco.

The church (St. John the Baptist) was practically rebuilt in 1815 when the central tower was taken down and rebuilt at the W. end. The body of the church is 15th century and of little interest, the removal of the screen turning it into a great barn. The N. aisle was the Lyndridge aisle and contains several memorials to the successive owners of the estate.

Lyndridge is a good 17th century house, probably built in 1673 for Sir Peter Lear, bart., a Barbados merchant, who bought the estate from the Martins. It was formerly much larger. Two wings were pulled down about 1740, leaving the centre alone standing, and the house has been remodelled to some extent. It was refaced in brick in 1916. There are some sumptuously decorated rooms with magnificent plaster ceilings done c. 1673.