Great Torrington (generally abbreviated to Torrington, though it should be noted that the villages of Little Torrington and BlackTorrington are situated in the same region) is a small market town in the north of Devon, England.
Torrington is in the very heart of Tarka Country, a landscape captured by Henry Williamson in his novel Tarka the Otter in 1927.
Torrington was visited by the plague in 1591, and in the 17th century it was the scene of some of the important actions of the civil war.
Torrington (distinguished from Little Torrington and BlackTorrington by the epithet Great) is a municipal borough and market-town in the hundred of Fremington, about thirty-six miles from Exeter, by Crediton, Chulmleigh, and Cranford Moor.
The principal manufacture carried on in Torrington and the country round is that of gloves ; this branch of industry was in 1834 in a very flourishing state.
The living of Torrington is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of the neighbouring parish of St. Giles in the Wood : their joint yearly value is £162 : they are in the gift of Christ Church College, Oxford.
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