* 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.

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.

Torrington Common is an area of common land which surrounds the town on all but the eastern side.

* 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.

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

Today Dartington Crystal is the major employer in Torrington and a very important to the South West, some Dartington Crystal is still produced in Torrington meaning the factory is the only working hand-made tableware producing crystal factory left in the UK, however, the company also sources ranges and items of ( especially machine-made ) crystal from overseas.

Torrington proposed avoiding a set battle, except under very favorable conditions, until the arrival of reinforcements.

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 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.

He then captured Tiverton and defeated Lord Hopeton's army at Torrington.

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.

Curtis and named by him for his home town of Torrington, Connecticut.

In the Battle of Torrington ( 1646 ), the Parliamentarians, led by Sir Thomas Fairfax, swept into the town and defeated Lord Hopton's forces.

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.

* Waterloo Monument: A stone obelisk erected in 1818 by " the ladies of Great Torrington " to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.

* Torrington 1646 Visitor Centre celebrates the town's role in the Civil War through exhibitions and talks by guides dressed in period costume and using the language of the age.

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

His titles were inherited by his only son, Christopher, Earl of Torrington ( 1653 – 1688 ), on whose death they became extinct.

Torrington has two radio stations, WAPJ 89. 9 FM, operated by the non-profit Torrington Community Radio Foundation, and WSNG 610 AM, owned by Buckley Broadcasting.

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.

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.

Torrington himself was in the centre red squadron ; the rear blue squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Ralph Delaval, comprised both English and Dutch ships.

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.

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.

George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington by Jeremiah Davison