We could not match "TORRANCE" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 13 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "TORRANCE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Baldernock	Stirlingshire	Torrance Bridge in the SE, of 200 near Longbank in the SW, of 187 at Craighead, 361 near Blairskaith, 313 by the church	Groome
  Calder	Lanarkshire	miles SE. of Glasgow; called Calder Water in its upper course, and Rotten Calder after receiving the Rotten Burn near Torrance.	Bartholomew
  Calder	Ayrshire Lanarkshire	course, and of Rotten Calder after receiving the Rotten Burn near Torrance.— Ord. Sur., shs. 23,31,1865-67.	Groome
  Campsie	Stirlingshire	Torrance, and Balgrochan, the three last lying respectively 1¼ mile N, 2¾ miles W, and 3 miles W by N, of Kirkintilloch	Groome
  Kilbride, East	Lanarkshire	Torrance. It is bounded N by Carmunnock and Cambuslang, E by Blantyre and Glassford, SE and S by Avondale, and W by Loudoun	Groome
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	Torrance, Udston House, Viewpark, Westburn House, Westquarter House, Wishaw House, and Woodhall. Industries. —Prior to 1700 the manufactures of Lanarkshire	Groome
  Rotten Calder, The	Lanarkshire	Rotten Calder, The , name given to lower course of river Calder, Lanarkshire, after receiving the Rotten, near Torrance.	Bartholomew
  Stirlingshire	Stirlingshire	Torrance, and Wester Balgrochan; while smaller villages and hamlets are Airth, Auchinmully, Baldernock, Balmore, Balquhatston Row, Banton, Barleyside, Birdstone, Blackbraes	Groome
  Torrance	Lanarkshire	Torrance, an ancient parish of W Lanarkshire, annexed to East Kilbride in 1589. Torrance House, near the left bank of the Rotten	Groome
  Torrance	Stirlingshire	Torrance , vil. with ry. sta., Campsie par., Stirlingshire, on river Kelvin, 3 miles W. of Kirkintilloch, pop. (Torrance and Wester	Bartholomew
  Torrance	Stirlingshire	Torrance, a village in Campsie parish, Stirlingshire, on the right bank of the Kelvin, 3 miles W of Kirkintilloch. It has a post	Groome
  Torrance	Lanarkshire	Torrance .-- ancient par., East Kilbride par., Lanarkshire; Torrance House , seat, is 2 miles SE. of East Kilbride vil.	Bartholomew
  Wester Balgrochan	Stirlingshire	Wester Balgrochan . See TORRANCE AND WESTER BALGROCHAN.	Bartholomew

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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