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Torbay

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Torbay

Urban area and unitary authority in southwest England created in April 1998 from part of the county of Devon.

Area

63 sq km/24 sq mi

Towns and cities

Torquay (administrative headquarters), Paignton, Brixham

Features

Tor Bay; English Channel coast; 23 beaches including Goodrington Sands; Oldway Mansion (Paignton) modelled partly on Versailles; 12th-century Torre Abbey (Torquay); replica of English explorer Francis Drake's Golden Hind (Brixham); Abbey Mansion (c. 17th century); Paignton Zoo

Industries

tourism, fishing, electronics, radio equipment, iron founding, horticultural products

Population

(2001) 129,700



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“I’ve often heard of that Bay of State,” said Benjamin, “but can’t say that I’ve ever been in it, nor do I know exactly whereaway it is that it lays; but I suppose there is good anchorage in it, and that it’s no bad place for the taking of ling; but for size it can’t be so much as a yawl to a sloop of war compared with the Bay of Biscay, or, mayhap, Torbay.
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