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Great Torrington (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 57 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.9500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 004 09 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -4.1500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Town and market center since Saxon times; a park is on the site of a Norman castle; in 1645 the church was blown up with 200 Royalists inside. |
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| Great Torrington (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Torrington, Great (C,V)
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| Torrington (NA,V,English,U)
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| Toritona (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Toritone (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Devon (county) (P) |
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