... ringed in blue is the area surrounding Drewsteignton and this next map shows this area in closer proximity: Looking at records from libraries, the internet and other sources (books in my family and what I already know): Drewsteignton has developed typically as a village, for instance the impact of both the farming and industrial revolutions with the population diminishing rapidly during the industrial revolution (rural - urban migration) and then beginning to increase more noticeably in the last twenty to thirty years as it became more attractive to have a house or second house in the country. Drewsteignton, similar to many English parishes, originated from an early manor (a collective farm and administrative centre). During the Saxon period most of what is the present parish was part of the Manor of Treable and at the time of the Doomsday survey in 1086 was called Taintonia. As time progressed, agriculture progressed and the ...

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