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Torbay community page

Torbay is located within Torbay local authority area. Historically it formed part of Haytor Hundred.

You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database.

Maps: The image below is of the Torbay area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

SX86don.jpg

The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX900600. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX86SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), to be included by kind permission of the copyright holder:


Creator: Devon Library and Information Services
Title: Torbay community page
Imprint: Exeter : Devon Library and Information Services
Date: 2004
Format: Web page : HTML
Series: Devon community web pages ; GAZTOR1
Ref. no.: WEB GAZTOR1
Coverage: Devon . Torbay . History . Web pages

Last Updated: 09/02/2005



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