Frosty Field, Hedge and Tree, Torridge Valley View: Torrington, Devon, England.
View from the Monument on Castle Hill, Great Torrington looking across the River Torridge. This frosty, winter view shows a grassy field, hedge barrier, solitary tree and muddy, maize sown field. The river Torridge which flows by these fields (occasionally flooding them) starts its life on Woolley Moors between Bradworthy and Morwenstow. After completing a long loop, it meets the Taw at Appledore then flows out into the Bristol Channel. It is famous for its setting in ‘Tarka the Otter’ by Henry Williamson and more lately in ‘Flow’ a novel for young adults by John Insull. Down river is Taddiport a hamlet which in the Middle Ages was a leper colony. It borders the River Torridge and some of the cottages have their back gardens flooded when the river is high. There is a bridge linking Torrington with an old toll house situated opposite the derelict milk factory. Opposite Taddiport, in Great Torrington, is the abandoned Unigate factory was once a thriving creamery and has been left to decay since the early 1990's following a damaging fire in the drying plant. A Creamery has stood on this site since 1874 when Robert Sandford founded the Torridge Vale Dairy and Butter Factory. Its situation at the bottom of the Torridge Valley was ideal being in a close proximity to the newly opened railway.
Size: 6000px × 4000px
Location: Torrington, Devon, England.
Photo credit: © John Insull / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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