Torcross, Devon
Historical Description
Torcross, a village in Stokenham parish, Devonshire, on the coast, 4½ miles ESE of Kingsbridge. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Kingsbridge. It is frequented as a watering-place, carries on a pilchard fishery, and has a hotel and a coastguard station.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Torcross are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)