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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Babbacombe like this:
BABBICOMBE, a chapelry in St. Marychurch parish, Devon; on the coast, 1½ mile NE of Torquay. It has a post office under Torquay, and an inn. It was recently a sequestered place, but has now a well-built and rapidly increasing village. The scenery is very fine. The living is a vicarage. The church is a splendid edifice, built in 1868.
Babbacombe is now part of TORBAY Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how TORBAY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Babbacombe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Babbacombe, in Torbay and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24373
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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