Great Torrington Society and Culture
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Beaford Community Pages - Selection of historical data and links to further sources of information provided by Devon Library and Information Services.
Broadband4Langtree Parish - A campaign to get ADSL Broadband in Langtree Parish covering Langtree, Berry Cross and Stibb Cross. Includes registering an interest to get the BT Telephone Exchange upgraded. Broadband is available in Torrington.
Frithelstock Community Pages - Selection of historical data and links to further sources of information, provided by Devon Library and Information Services.
Genesis Project - Community-based project whose remit is to help revitalise the centre of the town of Great Torrington. Includes details of one of the renovated buildings.
GENUKI: Frithelstock - Genealogical research information about Frithelstock.
GENUKI: Little Torrington - Genealogical research information about Little Torrington.
GENUKI: Roborough - Genealogical research information about Roborough.
The Lepers of Taddiport - This project intends to raise awareness of the culture and traditions of the Taddiport leper colony and its related industrial history.
Thomas Fowler - History of this Torrington man, inventor of the first convective heating system and a wooden calculating machine.
Torrington 1646 Outreach Education Project - This local heritage project aims to bring history to life in the classroom by using song, stories, role play, displays and dialect.
Torrington Cavaliers - Bonfires: The gunpowder plot, The great fire of London, 1666, Torrington`s part in the civil war, and 1646.
The Victorian Bathing Pool - This local heritage project is improving accessibility, and promoting awareness of, a former bathing pool which was created in Victorian times within a local river. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.