Directory of Society and Culture Resources

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This category is for information and organisations related to the history, culture, and people of Great Torrington and district. It contains websites that are related exclusively to the locality. Topics include clubs, social service organisations, resources, genealogy, history, personal pages, activism, animal welfare, politics, religion, and various sub-groups of the population.

Resources in This Category

• Beaford Community Pages

  http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/100420/1.html
  Selection of historical data and links to further sources of information provided by Devon Library and Information Services.

• Frithelstock Community Pages

  http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/110524/1.html
  Selection of historical data and links to further sources of information, provided by Devon Library and Information Services.

• Genesis Project

  http://www.ecodesign.co.uk/projects/culture-leisure/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

  http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Frithelstock/
  Genealogical research information about Frithelstock.

• GenUKI: Little Torrington

  http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/LittleTorrington/
  History of the parish south of the town, with the winding Torridge as the boundary. Includes genealogical research information and map from 1850, showing ancient parish boundary.

• GENUKI: Roborough

  http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Roborough/
  Genealogical research information about Roborough.

• Great Torrington

  http://www.great-torrington.com/
  Details of the town, including history, local accommodation providers, organisations, businesses, directions, contacts, links to the Crier and town guide.

• Save the Irreplaceble Torrington Community Hospital

  http://www.stitch.org.uk/
  STITCH is a group committed to campaigning to save services, formed when the in-patient beds were closed without consultation. Includes documentations, news, blog with questions and comments.

• Thomas Fowler

  http://www.thomasfowler.org.uk/
  History of this Torrington man, inventor of the first convective heating system and a wooden calculating machine.

• Torrington Cavaliers

  http://www.torrington-cavaliers.co.uk/
  Bonfires: The gunpowder plot, The great fire of London, 1666, Torrington`s part in the civil war, and 1646.

• Weare Giffard

  http://www.wearegiffard.info/
  Community site with a range of information about the village.

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