Excerpt from Leaves From the Annals of a Mountain Parish in Lakeland: Being a Sketch of the History of the Church and Benefice of Together With Its School Endowments, Charities, and Other Trust Funds The stream that flows through Torver has evidently given its name to the parish. I find it spoken of in early accounts as the river Torver. One part of it rises in the lonely and romantic Tarn of Gates Water (also a' Norse name), and its...