The term was first used in 1690 when Lord Torrington, commander of the Royal Navy forces in the English Channel, found himself facing a stronger French fleet.

* 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.

John Brown was born May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut.

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

Torrington Council # 079 was headquartered in Torrington, Connecticut.

Former Governor Stanley K. Hathaway was born in Nebraska but resided in Torrington.

Torrington was incorporated in 1908.

When Goshen County was created from part of the northern end of Laramie County in 1911, Torrington and Lingle competed for the title of county seat.

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.

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

On the 18th of March 2000, a demonstration using 16 horses was conducted in Great Torrington by Barometer World.

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.

In 1964, he contested the Torrington seat as the Labour candidate against the Conservative Party incumbent, losing in what was a traditional Conservative-Liberal marginal.

The contest was held on 17 September in the VR theatre, Torrington Place campus of University College London.

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

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.

Torrington, originally Wolcottville, was first settled in 1735 by Ebenezer Lyman, Jr., of Durham, Connecticut.

Torrington was given permission to organize a government and incorporate as a town in October 1740.

In 1849, the Naugatuck Valley railroad was completed, connecting Torrington with other population centers, ending its isolation, and stimulating further industrial growth.

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

1967 Comprehensively planned urban communities-transformation of ' Back-o-Wall ' slum to Tivoli Garden, a modern, fully, planned urban development ; Hellshire Hills development ; Portmore Town centre, Torrington Park )

The Plough arts centre on Fore Street in the centre of Great Torrington.

The Plough is situated in a former Territorial Army drill hall on Fore Street in the centre of Torrington.

For ten years from 1992 the Beaford Centre ran The Plough arts centre in Torrington.

When Torrington brought the remainder of the red squadron into action, he found difficulty in getting close enough because of the sag in the French line, and came no closer than twice gunshot range.

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.

Nottingham accused Torrington of treachery, informing William on 13 July " In plain terms ... Torrington deserted the Dutch so shamefully that the whole squadron had been lost if some of our ships had not rescued them.

Torrington blamed the defeat on the lack of naval preparations and intelligence – he had not been informed that the Brest fleet had been reinforced with the Toulon squadron.

However, the French decided not to use their fleet as a subsidiary to the Irish campaign ; King Louis XIV instead directed his navy against Torrington in the Channel.

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 realised that not to give battle was to be guilty of direct disobedience ; to give battle was, in his judgment, to incur serious risk of defeat.

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.

Nevertheless, Torrington burnt seven more badly-damaged Dutch ships and one English ship to avoid capture before gaining the refuge of the Thames ; as soon as he was in the safety of the river, he ordered all the navigation buoys removed, making any attempt to follow him too dangerous.

Torrington was temporarily replaced by a triumvirate of Sir Henry Killigrew, John Ashby and Sir Richard Haddock ; these were in turn replaced by Admiral Russell as sole commander of the English fleet.

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The largest of the areas, centered around Torrington, Connecticut, had a population in excess of 180, 000 in 2000 ; Torrington's population in that year's census was only 35, 202.

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.

The main towns within the constituency are now Bideford, Great Torrington, Holsworthy and Tavistock ; the constituency also includes the island of Lundy.

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.

The NYNH & H merged into Penn Central in 1969 ; by then the line north of Waterbury was named the Torrington Secondary Track, and ended at Torrington.