The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . , near Okehampton and elsewhere, is finely wooded. Past YeAV Bridge andDolton and Beaford, Torridge continues its sinuous course; and as it approachesGreat Torrington, set on a hill some 300 feet above its right bank, its A^alleypresents the combination of smooth haugh and precipitous rock shown in om- vieAV(page -19). Torrington has a history, and little besides. Even the church,enclosed in a notably jn-etty Gods acre, graced with avenues of beeches andchestnuts, has no special interest sav
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . , near Okehampton and elsewhere, is finely wooded. Past YeAV Bridge andDolton and Beaford, Torridge continues its sinuous course; and as it approachesGreat Torrington, set on a hill some 300 feet above its right bank, its A^alleypresents the combination of smooth haugh and precipitous rock shown in om- vieAV(page -19). Torrington has a history, and little besides. Even the church,enclosed in a notably jn-etty Gods acre, graced with avenues of beeches andchestnuts, has no special interest save that it contains the carved oak pulpit inwhich the great John HoAve preached liefore his ejectment in 1662 ; for it hadto be rebuilt after the Civil War, having been bloAvn up by the accidental explosion 48 EIVEES OF GREAT nnriAIX. [TllL TolUUUGE. of a larffe quantitv of o:unpowder while it was being used as a inajiazine and lani(b-ed Kovalists were confined in the l)iiildini;- at tlie time, and these, withtheii iriiards. all perished. Winding round Torrington Common, gay in due season.
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