Just over 400 years ago the traveller-antiquarian John Leland came through Torrington

and described it in his journal as ‘a great large toune and standith on the brow of an hille and hath 3 fair streates in it”.

Making no claim nowadays to being a large town – in fact it is one of the smallest boroughs in the country – Torrington still stands on its hill and certainly has more than three fair streets, as this recent aerial photograph shows.

Gazette article dated 18 August 1961