Torquay, a popular watering-place of South Devon, on Tor Bay, 23 m. S. of Exeter; with a fine climate and beautiful surroundings, has since the beginning of the century grown from a little fishing village to be “the Queen of English watering-places”; a great yachting centre, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 26,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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