TORRINGTON, GREAT, a municipal borough and market-town of England, Devonshire, on the right bank of the Torridge, 35 miles S.W. of Exeter, and 194 W. by S. of London. It is an old town, irregularly built of stone, on the sides and summit of a hill; and it has an old church, Methodist, Independent, and Baptist chapels, a market-house, National and other schools, &c. Formerly there was a castle here; but only a few fragments now remain, and the site is occupied by a bowling-green. Cloth and gloves are manufactured here. General Monk was born in the vicinity, and received the title of Viscount Torrington; and Howe, the great Puritan divine, was minister here for some time. Pop. of the parish, 3308.