An " area of waste called the Common " was donated to the town in 1194 by Baron FitzRobert of Torrington.

* February 16 – First English Civil War – The Battle of Great Torrington, Devon, the last major battle of the conflict, is fought.

Its county seat is Torrington.

The Wyoming Department of Corrections Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution is located in Torrington.

Thomaston is also headquarters of the Naugatuck Railroad, a heritage railway and short line freight operator that operates of former New Haven trackage between Waterbury and Torrington.

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.

Torrington is a city in and the county seat of Goshen County, Wyoming, United States.

Torrington is the home of Eastern Wyoming College.

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

The Wyoming Department of Corrections Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution is located in Torrington.

Public education in the city of Torrington is provided by Goshen County School District # 1.

Great Torrington ( often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region ) is a small market town in the north of Devon, England.

Torrington is in the very heart of Tarka Country, a landscape captured by Henry Williamson in his novel Tarka the Otter in 1927.

Mayfair is an annual folk festival believed to date back to 1554 in which the children of Torrington dance around a maypole set up in the town square.

* 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.

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

Torrington Golf Course is situated 1. 5 miles from the town centre and has 9 holes.

Great Torrington is twinned with the French port town of Roscoff, situated in northern Brittany.

Torrington is served by a number of regular bus services:

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

Torrington is a former mill town, as are most other towns along the Naugatuck River Valley.

In 2008, Torrington was named by Bizjournals as the number one " Dreamtown " ( micropolitan statistical area ) out of ten in the United States to live in.

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 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.

Some residents feel that the existence of the common has protected Great Torrington from over development.

of Great Torrington, and has in its parish 911 souls, and 4028 acres ( 16 km² ) of land, including the hamlets of Stowford and Week.

The University also owns many of the squares which formed part of the Bedford Estate, including Gordon Square, Tavistock Square, Torrington Square and Woburn Square.

Torrington was eventually selected after its residents raised enough money to build the courthouse, which was constructed in 1913.

The branch line to Bideford was extended to Great Torrington in July 1872, by the London and South Western Railway, which built a railway station and locomotive depot in the town.

Downtown Torrington is home to the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, which trains ballet dancers and whose Company performs in the Warner Theatre, a 1, 700 seat auditorium restored in 2002 to its original 1931 glory.

This event sparked the beginning of the brass industry in Torrington, which later would spread throughout the entire Naugatuck Valley.

Torrington is home to several state parks, one of which is the very popular Burr Pond State Park.

The main Allied fleet under Admiral Torrington was stationed in the English Channel ; a substantial part of the fleet was in the Mediterranean under Vice Admiral Henry Killigrew, which the Earl of Nottingham, William's Secretary of State and chosen naval advisor, hoped would neutralize the French Toulon squadron.

The head office in later years was Mullard House in Torrington Place, Bloomsbury, which is now part of University College London.

Walter Golaski ( 1913 in Torrington, Connecticut – 1996 ) was an American Mechanical-Bio-Medical Engineer best known for developing Dense Knit Dacron Vascular Prostheses, which were the first practical artificial blood vessel replacements.

The next year he commanded HMS Torrington, assisting in the protection of the convoy which brought reinforcements from Gibraltar to the newly captured fortress of Louisbourg.

Woodside Park station was planned by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway ( EH & LR ) and was originally opened as Torrington Park on 1 April 1872 by the Great Northern Railway ( which had taken over the EH & LR ).

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.

In 1950 the constituency was abolished and replaced by Torrington, which Lambert continued to serve until his father's death in 1958, at which point he joined the House of Lords.

The Tarka Trail cycle track ( also part of the South West Coast Path ), which follows the course of the rail line from Barnstaple to Torrington, passes over Fremington Pill via the old London and South Western Railway iron bridge ( railway line closed 1982 ; dismantled 1987 ) at Fremington Quay on the old Barnstaple to Torrington railtrack bed.

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.

Thomas Fowler ( born 1777 in Great Torrington, Devon, England – died March 31, 1843 ) was an English inventor whose most notable invention was the thermosiphon which forms the basis of most modern central heating systems.

Fowler had previously developed methods using balanced ternary arithmetic to simplify the complex monetary calculations he was obliged to perform on behalf of the Torrington Poor Law Union in his capacity as its treasurer, which he later published in his book Tables for Facilitating Arithmetical Calculations.