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  • ...ashing its north coast and the [[English Channel]] its south coast. To the west lies [[Cornwall]], and to the east [[Dorset]] and [[Somerset]]. The centre ...south-east and its largest town the port city of [[Plymouth]] in the south-west. Those are the only large towns by national standards, but throughout are f
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  • ...south-east of the county's largest town, [[Birmingham]] and 8 miles south-west of the county town, [[Warwick]]. It is a popular tourist destination owing ...t 'at the noted White Lion, I met with nothing but incivility' (cited from Torrington Diaries (ed. Andrews), iii, 152).<ref name="WarwickV3"/> Payton was succeed
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  • ...wo steep hills and is divided into two parts, the east or old town and the west or new town. ...o where they returned on 29 March 1646 after success both at the Battle of Torrington and in overturning the siege of Plymouth.<ref>{{cite book
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  • |name=Great Torrington |picture=Town hall torrington 050416.jpg
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  • |LG district=West Devon ...Hatherleigh is on the A386 between [[Okehampton]] to the south and [[Great Torrington]] to the north.
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  • ...of the [[Church of England]] and covers [[Devon]], excluding the parishes west of the [[River Tamar]]. The Cathedral is [[Exeter Cathedral]], the seat of ...the Deaneries of Barnstaple, Hartland, Holsworthy, Shirwell, South Molton, Torrington
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  • ...the village is Southill Park, which was formerly the home of the Viscounts Torrington, but was bought at the end of the 18th century by Samuel Whitbread, the bre ...dfordshire|Shefford]] 2 miles North which gives title of baron to Viscount Torrington, whose family seat is here. On a monument in the church is an inscription t
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  • ...r Tamar]], surrounded by [[Cornwall]]. The village stands five miles north-west of [[Launceston]] in Cornwall, on a ridge above the [[River Ottery]] valley
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  • *West Kilbride Golf Club - [[West Kilbride]] *West Berkshire Golf Club - [[Reading]]
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  • ...rn [[Devon]], within the part of that county which extends a finger to the west of the [[River Tamar]], surrounded on three sides by [[Cornwall]]. ...etherwin]] in Devon's [[Black Torrington Hundred]]. It is six miles north-west of [[Launceston]] in Cornwall.
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  • ...It is found to the north of [[North Petherwin]], in the county's [[Black Torrington Hundred]].
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  • ...rth of [[Launceston]], [[Cornwall]]. It forms part of Devonshire's [[Black Torrington Hundred]]. ...an Conquest of 1066, the manor of Werrington is recorded (within the Black Torrington Hundred)<ref>Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John,
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  • ...med part of the Bedford Estate, including Gordon Square, Tavistock Square, Torrington Square and Woburn Square, as well as several properties outside Bloomsbury, * The West and East Wings of [[Somerset House]], the location for the Courtauld Instit
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  • ...ttle village in northern [[Devon]], about nine miles south-west of [[Great Torrington]], and on the [[River Torridge]]. The 2001 census recorded a population of
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  • |constituency=Torridge and West Devon ...n Domesday | accessdate=24 June 2013}}</ref> The area, part of the [[Black Torrington Hundred]], had 10 households, 8 were smallholders and 2 were slaves.<ref na
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  • ...t 105 homes. The parish has three hamlets, known as '''Woodtown''' in the west, '''Alscott Barton''' which describes part of the village nucleus and '''St The B3232, the main road between Great Torrington and Barnstaple, skirts the nucleus of the village.
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  • ...dford]] it is joined by the [[River Waldon]], then heads east past [[Black Torrington]] and [[Sheepwash, Devon|Sheepwash]]. It is joined by the [[River Lew (Tor ...ast [[Little Torrington]] and [[Great Torrington]] heading generally north-west. It is joined by the [[River Yeo (Torridge)|River Yeo]] at [[Pillmouth]],
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  • *North Devon Railway – between Bideford and [[Great Torrington|Torrington]] *[[Beam, Great Torrington]] (named in the book as Tarka's birthplace)
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  • |constituency=Torridge and West Devon ...the parishes of [[Milton Damerel]], [[Shebbear, Devon|Shebbear]], [[Black Torrington]], [[Ashwater]], [[Cookbury]] and [[Thornbury, Devon|Thornbury]]. In 2001 i
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  • |constituency=Torridge and West Devon ...tt in [[Frithelstock]], Winscott House in Peters Marland and Cross, Little Torrington. Today Vielstone is a modest farmhouse, surrounded by converted farm build
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