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Coombeshead Road, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 1PY

At its junction with Highweek Village.

Well-placed to enjoy the sunset – on a hill that became a Victorian suburb and subsequently a 20th century one.

The title Higweek Village both describes the place and is the street name although Highweek is no longer a village having been absorbed into Newton Abbot as the town expanded.

Looking northeast over Higher Loady Park from below the cottages Image In the middle distance are floodmeadows on the west bank of the Teign, crossed by the racetrack which is the old Exeter Road. In the centre of the photo, hidden by trees, is Teign Bridge. Left of centre is a mound of clay waste being formed on the east side of Denistone Quarry Image, with a wooded mound of old waste appearing to its left Image Clay waste stretches away to the north. Right of centre the Broadway clay pit is being filled, with a big shaped mound to its right. Beyond it at some distance is Higher Sandygate Image, mostly. Between the mounds in the centre of the photo is the narrow wooded cleft which marks the course of the Abb Brook or Abbrook which, in its upper reaches, is the Ugbrooke Stream Image

Looking just east of north over Higher Loady Park from below the cottages Image Noticeable on the left is the top of the tower of Teigngrace church in Image The pale ground above it is the clay waste mound being formed on the Rixey Park (provisional name) quarry site, mostly in Image The huge Southacre Quarry disappears below it and behind the yellow-green land, which is a grassed mound of clay waste northwest of Preston. The River Teign runs left to right at its foot. The bright strip above it is clay waste at the back of the aptly-named White Pit Quarry. Also visible are the blue-green clay sheds strung along the B3193. These features alone fill Image Nearer the camera, centre, are the houses at Mount Pleasant Image, another good vantage point for trying to understand this disrupted landscape. At close quarters much of it is hidden by trees and bunds.

Looking over Higher Loady Park from just below the cottages Image Running across the picture is Greycoat Lane. On the left among trees are the schools' playing fields at Forches Cross. The houses in Greycoat Lane have as a neighbour the Cremtor animal cremation facility, with the twin chimneys. The conifer plantation across the road hides the Stover clay quarry. All these features are in Image The plume of steam is from the Candy tile factory at Heathfield Image The low pale shape above the plantation is the hill of clay waste north of Brocks Farm Image and three other squares. To its right is the Newbridge clay quarry Image and the edge of Chudleigh Knighton.