Toad
in zoölogy, the popular name in the 19th century . Other edifices are the town hall (1864 ), in late Venetian of any species of the family Bufonidæ, style, with a tower of 80 feet, a market which is almost universally distributed, grammar school house (1830), and the grammar school ("free" in name but not in fact), which, founded by Peter Blundel in 1604, and familiar to every reader of Blackmore's "Lorna Doone," has given place to a modern structure. The historic building, however, will remain intact. The cloth trade has declined since the 17th century, and lace making is now the leading industry.
Pop. (1901) 10,382.