Description
Torbrian, a parish in Devonshire, 4 miles SSW of Newton Abbot station on the G.W.R. Post town, Newton Abbot. Acreage, 3002; population of the civil parish, 516; of the ecclesiastical, 197. The land abounds in tors and rocks, and was anciently held by the Brians. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £340 with residence. The church is ancient.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
