Tormoham, Devon Family History Guide
Tormoham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Other places in the parish include: Torbay and Torwood.
Alternative names: Tormohun
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1637
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Christians, Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Tormoham
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TOR-MOHAM, or Tor-Mohun, a parish in Newton-Abbot district, Devon; statistically identical with Torquay town.
Acres, 1,560. Real property, £83,254; of which £851 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 11,474; in 1861, 16,419. Houses, 2,183 The increase of pop. arose from improvements by land-proprietors, and from advantages afforded for erection of houses.
The manor belonged to the Mohuns, passed to the Ridgways and the Carys; and belongs now to Sir L. Palk, Bart. Tor abbey was founded in the time of Henry II., by W. de Briwere, for Premonstratensian monks; possessed very rich revenues; was given, at the dissolution, to the Carys; underwent changes and additions, transmuting it into a mansion; and is still represented by considerable portions of the transmuted building, and by an interesting gateway.
The living is a p. curacy, united with Cockington, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £190. Patron, C H. Mallock, Esq. The church stands about a mile W of Torquay, and is ancient. The rectory of Upton, and the p. curacies of Torquay-St. John, Torquay-Trinity, Torquay-St. Luke, and Torwood are separate benefices. See Torquay and Torwood.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Torquay
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TORQUAY, a town and four chapelries in Tor-Moham parish, Devon.
The town stands on a cove of Tor bay, and on the Dartmouth and Torbay railway, 2¼ miles W by S of Hope Nose, and 7 miles SSE of Newton-Abbot; is statistically conterminate with Tor-Moham parish, but really excludes large rural sections of the parish.
It was a mere fishing-village prior to the great war with France; became the residence of numerous families connected with the Channel fleet under Lord St. Vincent; attracted extensive notice, through them, for the beauty of its views, the excellence of its climate, and its general amenities for seaside residence and seaside bathing.
It rose rapidly into importance as a resort of invalids, sea-bathers, and summer rusticators; ranks now as one of the very finest watering-places in the world; stands partly in sheltered valleys, partly on breezy hills; covers more ground, in proportion to its population, than perhaps any other town in England.
It contains only one main street, and only a small-aggregate of rows of houses; consists chiefly of isolated edifices and multitudinous villas, interspersed with gardens, and spread out like an architectural forest; presents a general aspect of mingled elegance and picturesqueness; commands, from the summit of Beacon hill and from other vantage-grounds, a magnificent prospect over sea and land; affords to invalids a choice of climate and of other advantages, in wide gradation from its lower to its higher sites.
It is a seat of petty sessions; publishes two weekly newspapers; and has a head post-office, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, seven hotels, numerous lodging and boarding houses, a great bathing establishment, a town hall, a public hall for lectures and concerts, club and reading rooms, subscription and assembly-rooms, a theatre, public gardens, a market place, a small harbour with a pier used as a promenade, four churches, six dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a mechanics’ institute, a natural history society, a school of art, national schools, an infirmary, a dispensary, an hospital for consumptive patients, and other institutions.
The Lands’ End hotel was built in 1866, at a cost of more than £30,000; and contains 135 rooms. The bathing-establishment was constructed in 1855-7, with vast labour of excavation and of building; presents an elegant exterior, in the Roman Doric style; includes prime and ample bathing appliances, together with magnificent reading and assembly-rooms; and adjoins a terrace overlooking the bay.
Upton or St. Mary Magdalen’s church is a fine modern edifice, in the early English style, of Devonshire limestone faced with Caen stone; and has a spire of white Bath stone-St. Luke’s church was built in 1863; and is a picturesque structure, in the decorated English style. Markets are held on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; a fair, on Easter Monday; and a regatta, in Aug.
The chapelries are Upton, St-John, Trinity, and St. Luke. The living of Upton is a rectory, and the other livings are p. curacies, in the diocese of Exeter. Value of Upton, £250; of St. John, £207; of the others, not reported. Patron of Upton, Sir L. Palk, Bart.; of Trinity, the Rev. R. Fayle; of St. John and St. Luke, the Incumbent of Tor-Moham.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Torwood
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TORWOOD, a chapelry chiefly in Tor-Moham parish, and partly in St. Marychurch parish, Devon; 2 miles N by E of Torquay r. station.
It was constituted in 1857; and its Post town is Torquay. Pop., 2,491. Houses, 303. The living is a p. curacy, united with St. Matthias chapelry, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £200. Patron, Sir L. Palk, Bart.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
London Gazette
Henry Russell – Tormoham Devon – London Gazette April 1850
Declaration of Dividend under a Fiat, dated the 23rd day of July 1849, against Henry Russell, of Tor, in the parish of Tormoham, in the county of Devon, Innkeeper. NOTICE is hereby given, that a First Dividend, at the rate of 7d. in the pound, is now payable, and that warrants for the same may be received by those legally entitled, at my office, Queen-street, Exeter, on any Tuesday between the hours of eleven and three. No warrants can be delivered unless the securities exhibited at the proof of the debt be produced, without the special direction of a Commissioner. Executors and administrators of deceased creditors will be required to produce the probate of will or letters of administration.—April 13, 1850. HENRY LAKE HIRTZEL, Official Assignee.
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Newton Abbot
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Ipplepen
- Poor Law Union: Newton Abbot
- Hundred: Haytor
- Province: Canterbury