Great, a municipal borough and market-town of England, Devonshire, on the right bank of the Torridge, 35 miles S.W. of Exeter, and 19½ 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.