668 TOPSHAM. DEVONSHIRE. [:KILLY'S l'yne George, market gardener, Denver house, High street Turl WilIiam, shopkeeper, Pouud lane Pyne Maria (Mrs.), market gardener, High street Underhill Eliza (Mrs.), bricklayer & market gardnr. Fore st Reeyes Peter, bath chair proprietor, White street Underhill Ellen (Miss), dress maker, Fore street Row William, town crier, Lower Shapter street Underhill George, market gardener, Quay gardens Salter Frances (Miss), young ladies' school, Fore street Underhill Richard Harford, assistant overseer, High street Salter Robert, watch maker, Lower Shapter street UnderhiU William Henry, butcher, Fore street Sanders Ebenezer, lighter owner, White street Underhill William Slade, boot & shoe maker, Fore street Sanders James, master mariner, Monmouth street Vowden James, baker, High street Sanders Richard, lighter owner, White street Wadling Ann (Mrs.), grocer, Fore street Sanders William, lighter owner, White street Wall William, baker & grocer, Fore street Sargeant George, market gardener, High street Wannell Charles, pilot, Passage Serena William, clerk to school & burial boards, & deputy Wannell George, Ship inn, Strand registrar of births & deaths, Topsham sub-district, St. Wannell John, shopkeeper, Quay hill Thomas union, Victoria place Wannell John Stamp, refreshment rooms, Fore street Sims Matilda (Mrs.), draper, Fore Street hill Wannell Kelson, pilot, Pa8sage Smith Bertha (Mrs.), boot & shoe dealer, High street Ward William Henry, fish dealer, Fore Street hill Stabback Abraham, harbour master, Quay Ware Lewis, baker, Fore street Stephens Jane (Mrs.), fancy repository, Fore street Webb George, station master Sully John, master mariner, Shapter street Webster Edward Godfrey, commercial traveller, High st Swain John, builder & parish clerk, Fore street West Charles, boat huilder, block & ladder maker, Passage Swain Richard, firewood dealer, Fore street Westaway John, saddler, Fore street Symes Robert (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Shapter street Westaway William, basket maker, High street Tancroft Mary (Mrs.), laundress, Higher passage Westcott Ellen (Mrs.), market gardener, Shapton street Tapley Richard, solidtor, Strand Weswott James, tailor, Fore street 'rapper Albert, dairyman, Victoria cottage, Fore street Westcott John Chas. marine engineer, Ivy lodge, Shapter st. Tapper William, Lord Nelson P.H. & blacksmith, High st Wheaton Robert, carpenter, Strand Thomas William, boot maker, Fore street White William, Prudential assurance agent, High street Topsham District Horticultural Society (John Osborne, hon. White William Hitt, butcher, Fore street sec. ; G. May, treasurer), Fore street Williams Henry, greengrocer, Fore street Topsham Sailing Club (Alexander K. Hamilton esq. J.P. Williams Thomas, hair dresser, Fore street commodore; W. J. Goodman, hon. sec) Williams William, landscape painter, Strand Towell Henry, marine store dealer Willing John, master mariner, Fore street Tree Joshua, butcher, Fore street Wills Ann (Mrs.), laundress, Monmouth street Trout Edward, boat builder, Quay Wilson John, Sun inn, High street TORBRYAN is a parish and village, 4 miles south-by- shaft of a large stone.cross of ancient date. The register of west from , 3 north-east from Staverton baptisms, marriages and burials dates from the year 1564­ :station on the Ashburton branch and 4 west from Kingskers- The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £344. including 17 well station on the Torquay branch of the South sec- acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of and held sinc~ tion of the Great We~tern railway, in the Mid division of the 1863 by the Rev. Chas. Wolston LL.B. of St. John's College, county, Haytor hundred, petty sessional division, Cambridge, and surrogate. The poor have 20S. yearly, left. Newton Abbot union, Newton Abbot and Torquay county by John l'et1'e in 1370. There are no manorial rights. court district, rural deanery of MOl'eton, archdeaconry of The principal landowners are the Rev, Charles Wolston Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of the Holy LL. B. rector, Rev. John Lee, Mrs. Tulley, R. Hurd esq_ Trinity is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular Daniel Robert Sc1'atton D.L., J.P. of OgwelI, Newton Abbot, style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, separated from the and Thomas Tripe esq. of 18 Devon square, Newton Abbot_ nave by arcades of five arches, chapel, south porch and an The soil is red loam; subsoil, sand aJid clay. The chief cropS' embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 4 bells, are wheat, barley and other forage. The area, including­ all with inscriptions in Old English and Roman characters, Denbury, is 2,973 acres; rateable value, £4,713; the popu­ the first two inscriptions being confusedly arranged: the lation in 1881 was 203. chancel retains a piscina, and there is one at the east end Sexton, William Trace. of each aisle: a magnificent carved oak screen, richly orna- mented with fan tracery divides the nave and chancel: the Letters through Newton Abbot, the nearest telegraph office p pulpit and the communion table are also very fine specimens arrive at 8 a. m. The nearest money order office is at-. of carved oak: in the south aisle is a stone staircase leading to the ancient entrance to the rood loft: in 1887 the organ WALL LETTER Box cleared at 8.10 a.m. & 5.20 p.m was resLored and removed to the south chapel, at the cost of This place is included in the Torbryan & Denbury United the rector: there are 250 sittings: in the churchyard, School Hoard district, formed March 5, 1875. The child- entered by an old lych gate, are the base and part of the ren of this parish attend the school at Denbury Easterbrook William Dawe James, beer retailer Putt Richard, miller ~ water), Tor mill Wolston Rev. Charles LL.B. [rector & Easterbrook Charles, farmer, Hole Rowe William, farmer, Well farm surrogate], Tor Newton ElIiott John, farmer, Tor court Staddon William, farmer, Norton Wolston Miss, Tor Newton Ellis George, farmer, Morley Taylor Charles, Church House P.H COMMERCIAL. Hannaford John, farmer, Killinch Trace John, hind to Rev. C. Wolston.. Ashford James, farmer, Wotton Harper William, farmer, Brimridge lVrenwell cottage Bradridge WiIliam, farmer, Yeatt Harris Aaron, farmer, Venn Tully George, farmer, Heathfield HulIey James, farmer, Broadway Lee George, farmer, Pool Wills Charles, farmer, Coppa Dolla. TORCROSS. see STOKENHAM.

~rORQUAY AND TORl\fOHAM. TORQUAY is a fashionable watering-place, with two stations The parIsh of Tormoham occupies the greater part of a bold. (one at Torquayand another at Torre) on the Dartmouth promontory, called" Hope's Nose," about three miles in and Torbay branch of the Great Western railway, in the length and two in breadth, which projects eastward intO' parish of Tormoham, and a market town, in the Torquay the English Channel, and separates Torbay and .Babba­ uivision of the county, hundred of Haytor, petty sessional combe Bay. division of Paignton, union of Newton Abbot, county court Being open to the sea breezes of the south, and sheltered district of Newton Abbot and Torquay, rural deanery of by lofty hills from the winds of the north, east and west, Ipplepen, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter, 226 Torquay is especially desirable as a winter residence for in­ miles from London, 61 south-east from Newton Abbot, 8l valids and persons of delicate constitution. The lower part. south from Teignmouth, 9! east from Totnes, 7! north-east of the town, occupied chiefly by the shops and residences of from Brixham, 12 north-by-east from Dartmouth, 23 south tradesmen, is built round three sides of the harbour, with from ~xeter and 36 east-by-north from Pl~'mouth, and is the qUlly and piers in front. The next tier comprises hand­ delightfully situated on the picturesque acclivities of the some terraces, approached by a winding road at each end, shore of the northern recess of Torbay, with terraces and and by steps in other places; the upper tiers are reached in suburban villas extending 80 far westward that the old vil­ a similar way, and the detacheJ hills on either hand are. lage of Tor and Torquay are now considered as one town. occupied by ranges of houses and delightful villa residencesp