Excerpt from The Panorama of Torquay: A Descriptive and Historical Sketch of the District Comprised Between the Dart and Teign Torbay derives its name from being surrounded with numerous and rocky hills. It is not uncommon in De vonshire for many places to take the name of Tor from this circumstance; indeed, some of the Tors, as High tor, South Brent tor, Three Barrow tor, Sharp tor, Hamil tor, and Cawson downs were formerly beacons or fire towers, which the word Tor itself in the celtic and other languages implies, and anciently there were watchings and wardings of these beacons, as evinced by a record, dated 1626, of the customs, ancient privileges and freedom of the manor 'of Sheepstorre, which was fi'ree from watching and warding of all beacons* The country along the shores of Torbay is divided by the parishes of St. Mary Church, Tormohun, Cocking ton, Paignton, Marldon, Brixham and Churston Fer rers, all being in the hundred of Haytor, and the dean cry of Ipplepen - and is considered one of the most fertile districts in the county. It forms the eastern boundary of the south-hams, - a tract of land which, from the richness of its soil, and the general character of its scenery, is frequently designated the Garden of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.