Bishopsteignton, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the river Teign, 2 miles W by S of Teignmouth station on the G.W.R., under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish includes also the hamlets of Coombe and Luton. Acreage, 4446 of land and 227 of foreshore and water; population, of the civil parish, 1095; of the ecclesiastical, 892. The manor of Bishopsteignton belongs to the Comyns family, that of Luton to Lord Clifford. A mansion and a sanctuary were built in the parish by Bishop Grandison, and remains of the former exist in a barn at Radaway. The living is a vicarage, united till 1866 with Luton church, in the diocese of Exeter; value £182. The parish church is a neat Gothic edifice of nave, chancel, and aisles, with a tower and spire erected in 1815, and the church of Luton is a Gothic structure of nave and chancel. There is a Wesleyan and a Baptist chapel at Radaway.
