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The Gleneagles Hotel was a hotel in Torquay, Devon, England. The 41-bed establishment, which opened in the 1960s, was the inspiration for Fawlty Towers , a British situation comedy first broadcast in the mid-1970s.
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The Grand Hotel is a hotel in Torquay, Devon. The Restaurant 1881 holds an AA Rosette for fine dining. [1] The hotel has 132 bedrooms and 4 floors. The Grand Hotel first opened in Torquay in 1881, in response to the Great Western Railway’s expansion into the South West. In 1926, it was one of the first hotels in the UK to install central heating.
Torquay (/ t ɔːr ˈ k iː / tor-KEE) is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.It lies 18 miles (29 km) south of the county town of Exeter and 28 miles (45 km) east-north-east of Plymouth, on the north of Tor Bay, adjoining the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay and across from the fishing port of Brixham.
Chelston Manor - a 17th-century manor house and reputed to be one of the oldest buildings in Torquay. [10] For centuries the building was used to perform the duties of a dower house to Cockington Court [4] and today the building is a hotel and public house. Corbyn Beach and Corbyn Head; Grand Hotel
[11] [9] The scale of this internal alteration can be appreciated by its cost in 1973 of £9000, the same as the average price of a house bought in the UK that year. [ 12 ] Between 1980 and 1998 two loft conversions and four extensions were added which are in a more modern style, built to serve the present day needs of the holiday centre.
The Hotel Collection (formerly Puma Hotels Collection until 2013, Barceló Hotels until 2012 [1] and the Paramount Group of Hotels before that) was a group of 4-star mid-market hotels operating in the United Kingdom. The group also included 18 health and leisure clubs.
Corbyn Head Hotel was a hotel on the seafront of Torbay Road, Torbay, Devon. [1] The hotel had 52 bedrooms in 1990 but was later reduced to 45 bedrooms. [2] It was often used for conferences in Torbay. [3] The hotel was demolished in February 2020 to make way for a controversial six-storey replacement. [4]