About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: History of Torquay, History of Plymouth, Grand Western Canal, Prayer Book Rebellion, High Sheriff of Devon, Dumnonia, Bristol and Exeter Railway, Tavistock Canal, Rapparee, Ilfracombe, Stannary Courts and Parliaments, Leonard Costello, Bideford witch trial, Devil's Footprints, Grimspound, Forest of Dartmoor, Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, Hallsands, Crockern Tor, Scorhill, Tiverton by-election, 1923, House of Courtenay, The Great Thunderstorm, Legend of the Parson and Clerk, Balquhain, Harry Trelawney Eve, Devon County Cricket Club, Bere Ferrers rail accident, Isca Dumnoniorum, Hallowe'en, Ancient Tenements, Hingston Down, Devon, SS Bengrove, Grey Wethers, Clyst Heath, Devon colic, Hembury, Exeter Conspiracy, Bicton House, Devon, Lyme Bay canoeing tragedy, Tin Duties Act 1838, Courtenay of Tremere, Yellowmead Down, Yelland Stone Rows, History of Ilfracombe, Devon County Constabulary, Council of the West, Moridunum, Broadwoodwidger Rural District, Stalldown Barrow. Excerpt: The History of Torquay, a town in Torbay, on the south coast of the county of Devon, England, starts some 450,000 years ago with early human artefacts found in Kents Cavern. There is little evidence of any permanent occupation at Torquay until the eleventh century records in the Domesday Book, though it is known that visits were made by Roman soldiers and there was a small Saxon settlement called 'Torre'. In 1196 Torre Abbey was founded here, which by the time of its dissolution in 1539, had become the richest Premonstratensian Monastery in England. The buildings were bought by Sir George Cary in 1662. The Cary family and the de Briwere family between them owned much of the land now occupied by Torquay. By the 19th century, most of the land was owned by three families: the Carys, the Palks, and the Mallocks. There was little...
