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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WEST TORRINGTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CAISTOR, or Castor	Lincolnshire	West-Rasen, Usselby, Walesby, Stainton-le-Vale, Kirmond-le-Mire, Tealby, North Willingham, Sixhills, East Torrington, Legsby, Lissington, Linwood, Buslingthorpe	Imperial
  DEVONSHIRE, or Devon	Devon	Torrington, and Totnes, and the hundreds of Bampton, Black Torrington, Braunton, Crediton, Fremington, Halberton, Hartland, Hayridge, Hemyock, North Tawton, Shebbear, Sherwill, South Molton, Tiverton, Winkleigh, Witheridge, West	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	West Down, Ilfracombe, and Morthoe; and the p. curacies of Lee, Ilfracombe-St. Philip and St. James, Lynton, and Countisbury. The deanery of South Molton contains the rectories of East Anstey, Cheldon, Creacombe, Cruwys-Morchard, Kings-Nymphton, Meshaw, Nymet-St. George, Oakford, Puddington, Rackenford, Romansleigh, Rose-Ash, Salterleigh, Stoodleigh, Thelbridge, Warkleigh, Washford-Pyne, Woolfardisworthy, East Worlington, and West Worlington; the vicarages of West Anstey, Knoweston, North Molton, and Witheridge; and the p. curacies of Mariansleigh, Twitching, and South Molton. The deanery of Torrington	Imperial
  HORNCASTLE	Lincolnshire	West Ashby. Acres, 27, 209. Pop., 9, 112. Houses, 1, 945.—The district comprehends also the sub-district of Wragby, containing the parishes of Wragby, West Torrington	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	West Rasen, and Toft; and the vicarages of Binbrook-St. Gabriel, MarketRasen, Rasen-Drax, Rasen-Tupholme, Tealby, and North Willingham. The deanery of Wraghoo contains the rectories of East Barkwith, West Barkwith, Benniworth, Biscathorpe, Hatton, Holton-with-Beckering, LudfordParva, Panton, Rand, Snelland, Sotby, East Torrington	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Torrington, Woburn, and Bedford. squares; in Marylebone, Blandford, Harewood, Dorset, Montague, Bryanston, Portman, Manchester, and Cavendish-squares; in St. Pancras, Euston, Tavistock, Harrington, Clarendon, Clarence, York, Fitzroy, Argyle, Gordon, Oakley, Regent, Brunswick, and Mecklenburgh-squares; in Paddington, Sussex, Gloucester, Connaught, Oxford, and Cambridge-squares; in Kensington, Kensington-square; in Brompton, Montpellier, Trevor, Lowndes, and Cadogan-squares; in Belgravia, Eaton, Chester, Ebury, Eccleston, Warwick, and St. George's-squares; in Chelsea, Sloan, Trafalgar, and Oakley-squares; in Lambeth, St. Mary and West	Imperial
  TORRINGTON (East)	Lincolnshire	TORRINGTON (East) , a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln; 4½ miles SE by S of Market-Rasen r. station. Post town, Wragby. Acres, 1,498. Real property, £1,873. Pop., 120. Houses, 21. The manor belongs to Turnor, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with West	Imperial
  Torrington (Great)	Devon	Torrington ( Great ), mun. bor., market town, and par., Devon, on river Torridge, 6 miles SE. of Bideford and 225 from London by rail, 3456 ac., pop. 3445; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Saturday . Torrington is an ancient borough, incorporated by Queen Mary, and at one time sent representatives to Parliament. Glove-making is the principal industry. General Monk was born in the neighbourhood; and it was near Torrington that Fairfax in 1646 won his victory over Hopton, and so crushed the royalist cause in the west	Bartholomew
  Torrington, West	Lincolnshire	Torrington, West , par., Lincolnshire, 1 mile SW. of East Torrington, 1109 ac., pop. 160.	Bartholomew
  TORRINGTON (West)	Lincolnshire	TORRINGTON (West) , a parish in Horncastle district, Lincoln; 3 miles N by E of Wragby, and 4 ENE of Snelland	Imperial

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