Northern Litchfield Council # 079 was headquartered in Torrington, Connecticut.

Tunxis Council # 079, headquartered in Torrington, Connecticut, came about from a name change of Northern Litchfield Council in 1947.

Torrington is the largest city in Litchfield County, Connecticut and the Litchfield Hills region.

The geographic region includes two officially designated regions: rural Northwestern Connecticut, and the area associated with the city of Torrington ( also known as the Upper Naugatuck River Valley or simply Litchfield Hills ).

The Litchfield Hills region is also known as the Upper Naugatuck Valley and consists of the towns of Barkhamsted, Colebrook, Goshen, Hartland, Harwinton, Litchfield, Morris, New Hartford, Norfolk, Torrington, and Winchester.

The Litchfield Hills feel a stronger pull toward industry than Northwestern Connecticut, with manufacturing centering around the Naugatuck River in Torrington and Mad River in Winsted.

Some notable areas settled by people from the Litchfield Hills include the Western Reserve of Ohio and Torrington, Wyoming.

* The Upper Naugatuck Valley, more often referred to as the Litchfield ( Northwest ) Hills, refers to the area centered on the city of Torrington.

The watershed area in the Upper Naugatuck Valley includes parts of the towns of Goshen, Harwinton, Litchfield, Morris, New Hartford, Norfolk, Torrington, Winchester.

Municipalities in the newspaper's coverage area include Waterbury, Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Cheshire, Colebrook, Cornwall, Derby, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Hartford, New Milford, North Canaan, Oxford, Plymouth, Prospect, Roxbury, Seymour, Sharon, Southbury, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Winchester, Watertown, Woodbury, and Wolcott ; smaller non-incorporated areas include Bantam, Gaylordsville, Oakville, Terryville, Union City, Waterville, and Winsted.

* Northwest Hills District serves the following communities: Bantam, Barkhamsted, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Burlington, Canaan, Colebrook, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Lakeville, Litchfield, Morris, New Hartford, New Milford, Norfolk, North Canaan, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Southbury, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Winchester, Winsted and Woodbury

He was master of HMS Sovereign in summer 1690, under his old commander Arthur Herbert, now Lord Torrington.

From June 1963 the Bude, Torrington and Plymouth through carriages were withdrawn except on summer Saturdays.

Torrington's local football team is Torrington F. C .. There is also the local rugby, golf, netball, bowling, tennis and swimming teams.

A team of Scandinavian glass blowers came with him to Torrington, some of whom are still there to this day, and the factory opened in June 1967 under the name of Dartington Glass.

Ironically, the depot, which at one time did a lot of business is being torn down and the lumber carefully sorted and hauled to Torrington to be used in construction of another building by the man who purchased it.

English admiral Torrington – who had advised against engaging the superior French fleet but had been overruled by Queen Mary and her ministers – was court-martialled for his performance during the battle.

Unable to proceed to the westward to link up with Shovell and Killigrew ( who was on his way home ), Torrington announced his intention of retreating before the superior French fleet to the Straits of Dover, believing the loss of the ' fleet in being ' would strategically be too great.

Carmarthen thought that it was advisable to fight ; as did Nottingham and Admiral Russell, who were unconvinced that the French were as strong as Torrington reported, and considered that only the admiral's pessimism, defeatism or treachery could account for his reports.

Torrington called a council of war with his flag-officers, who concluded that they had no option but to obey.

Outmatched, Torrington ended the battle late in the afternoon, taking advantage of the tide and the drop in wind ; while his ships dropped anchor, the French – who were not sufficiently alert – were carried off by the current and out of cannon range.

John Byng, who was controversially court-martialled and shot in 1757, was the fourth son of the first Viscount Torrington.

She is serving Gaea upon her revival and tries to kill her demigod half-brother Alabaster C. Torrington and the mortal Dr. Harold Claymore ( an author who studies death ).

: Java is the 200, 000 year-old caveman, a friend and aide-de-camp to Martin and Diana who works at Torrington as a cook and a janitor.

0083: Operation Stardust: after successfully stealing the GP02A from Federation's Torrington base in Australia, the Delaz Fleet, a remnant group of Gihren Zabi loyalists who refuse to accept defeat in One Year War, fired a nuclear warhead on the Federation Naval Review, destroying / disabling two thirds of the ships taking part.

The latter bill lapsed owing to an early prorogation, but Herbert's estates were sequestrated, the royal palace of Oatlands, Weybridge, Surrey, which had been granted to him by James shortly before his abdication, being given to his brother Arthur, Earl of Torrington, who had taken the opposite side in politics.

Edwin R. Fellows ( May 29, 1865 – May 21, 1945 ) was an American inventor and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who designed and built a new type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the mentoring of James Hartness, left the Jones & Lamson Machine Company to co-found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield, Vermont, which became one of the leading firms in the gear-cutting segment of the machine tool industry.

Around 1852 the canal was leased to George Braginton who among other things held the position of Mayor of Torrington a number of times.

The winning entry was submitted by Mr F. Rowland, a guard from Great Torrington in North Devon, who won a prize of three guineas for suggesting " Atlantic Coast Express ", soon abbreviated to " ACE ".

It was then awarded to his brother, Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, who was later the admiral in command of the English and Dutch Fleets at the Battle of Beachy Head.

* was a 52-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1654 as the Torrington for the Commonwealth of England Navy, renamed Dreadnought at the Restoration in 1660, and lost in 1690.

) Payton " brought the house into great vogue " though Byng in 1792 complained that " at the noted White Lion, I met with nothing but incivility " ( cited from Torrington Diaries ( ed.

Torrington is located at ( 42. 066542 ,-104. 182471 ).

* Rolle Road: This is the site of the Rolle Canal which opened in 1827 to help transport clay, lime and other commodities between the boats on the tidal river at Landcross and the lime kilns, clay pits and farms around Torrington.

One example at Annery in North Devon, England, near Great Torrington, was made up of three kilns grouped together in an ' L ' shape and was situated beside the Torrington canal and the River Torridge to bring in the limestone and coal, and to transport away the calcined lime in the days before properly metalled roads existed.

It was during his tenure that the first post-war Liberal revival took place: under Grimond the Liberals doubled their seats and won historic by-elections at Torrington in 1958, Orpington in 1962, and Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1965.

Hopton was defeated at Torrington on 16 February 1646 and surrendered to Thomas Fairfax.

Today, both Van Doren and his wife, Gerry, are adjunct professors of English at the University of Connecticut, Torrington branch.

The regular daily milk train was from Torrington, but milk trains from all over the West Country would stop at Clapham Junction in the evening, and reduce their length by half so that they did not block Vauxhall station while unloading.

On 5 July, Torrington sighted the French fleet, calculating their strength at almost 80 ships of the line.

Torrington, however, had been sent to the Tower of London to await a court martial at Chatham.

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He had already been created a Baronet, of Torrington in the County of Devon, in 1611, Lord Ridgeway, Baron of Gallen-Ridgeway, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1616, and was made Viscount Gallen-Ridgeway at the same time as he was granted the earldom, also in the Peerage of Ireland.

In the winter of 1645-46 the town was used as a base by Thomas Fairfax and the New Model Army from where they marched on the Royalist forces gathering in North Devon, and to where they returned on 29 March 1646 after success both at the Battle of Torrington and in overturning the siege of Plymouth.

Upon Richard Cromwell's retirement he returned to his former parish at Torrington.

Special Reserve-a premium series of wine glasses designed to suit different types of wine, all made at Torrington and sold in a unique Wooden box.

This range is designed by Art Glass designer Sarah Peterson and made at the Torrington factory.

This replica can be seen in the Visitors Centre at the Torrington site.

William Johnson Cory ( January 9, 1823 – June 11, 1892 ), born William Johnson, was an educator and poet, born at Great Torrington, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed Tute ( short for " tutor ") by his pupils.