Tasteful Victoriana ; Long Before the Days When a Car Was an Essential of Our Daily Lives, and the Centres of Our Towns and Cities Were Where Most People Other Than the Farming Communities Lived, the Gentry Built Themselves Fine Homes in the Heart of Them.

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Long before the days when a car was an essential of our daily lives, and the centres of our towns and cities were where most people other than the farming communities lived, the gentry built themselves fine homes in the heart of them.

The Victorians, in particular, knew a thing or two about where to live in Torbay.

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Tasteful Victoriana ; Long Before the Days When a Car Was an Essential of Our Daily Lives, and the Centres of Our Towns and Cities Were Where Most People Other Than the Farming Communities Lived, the Gentry Built Themselves Fine Homes in the Heart of Them.

In Torquay they constructed grand villas on the sunny and warm south-facing slopes of the town's famous hills, or clus...

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