The Crowndale Hotel - Torquay
Torquay, Devon

Resting on a quiet tree-lined road, a warm and friendly welcome awaits you at this B&B, a short walk from the seafront with its safe, sandy beach and harbour. If it's good food (and plenty of it), a friendly atmosphere and cleanliness that you are after, then look no further. All of our double and family rooms are en suite. We have a comfortable guest lounge, where you can watch TV or a video, do a jigsaw, play cards or board games, or just curl up with a good book. In addition, there is a car park at the rear of the hotel, as well as a sun terrace.

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Torquay is a town on the south coast of England in the county of Devon which has extended along the coast of Torbay to the extent that it is now inextricably intermingled with the neighbouring town of Paignton. In the 19th century it became a fashionable seaside resort, renowned for its healthy climate it gained a nickname as the English Riviera. Although it has been suggested that Torquay roughly signifies 'Thor's Harbor' (cognate to Tórshavn, Faroe Islands and Þórshöfn, Iceland), a more likely root is the Old English word torr (itself of Celtic origins), which now occurs as tor or torre in place names in Devon and Cornwall.