Description
Torver, a small village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Ulverston parish, Lancashire, with a station on the Coniston railway, 2 miles SW of Coniston. There is a post office under Coniston; money order and telegraph office, Coniston (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3550 of land and 266 of water; population of the township, 176; of the ecclesiastical parish, 192. The manor belongs to the Crown. The scenery is highly picturesque. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £120 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1884, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a central tower. There are a Baptist chapel and an endowed school with £13 a year.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
