* 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.

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

Downtown Torrington also hosts the largest Lodge of Elks in New England.

In 2003 the company acquired its largest domestic competitor in the bearing business — The Torrington Company of Torrington, Connecticut.

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.

Torrington was chartered as a city in 1923.

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.

* Torrington Titans Litchfield County's summer collegiate baseball team who play at Fuessenich Park in downtown Torrington.

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.

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 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

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.

Charles also raised him to the Peerage as Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Torrington, in the County of Devon, Baron Monck, of Potheridge in the County of Devon, Baron Beauchamp, of Beauchamp in the County of Devon, and Baron of Teyes, in the County of Devon, and he received a pension of £ 7, 000 a year.

In 2005, he was the UKIP candidate for the Torrington Rural ward in the Devon County Council election, but finished fourth of the four candidates

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.

From 1954 until 1962, he served in Torrington as prosecuting attorney for Goshen County in southeastern Wyoming.

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

Torrington Council # 079 was headquartered in Torrington, Connecticut.

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

* Torrington, Connecticut

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

The principal highways through the town are Connecticut Route 63 ( connecting to New Haven ), Route 68 ( leading to Durham ), and the Route 8 expressway ( for Waterbury, Derby, Torrington, and Bridgeport ).

In Torrington, Connecticut there is a school named after him Oliver Wolcott Technical High School.

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

WWUH's programming can also be heard on WAPJ, 89. 9 in Torrington, Connecticut ; WDJW, 89. 7 in Somers, Connecticut ; and WWEB, 89. 9 in Wallingford, Connecticut and on the web at wwuh. org.

Ebersol was born in Torrington, Connecticut, the son of Mary ( née Duncan ) and Charles Roberts Ebersol, a former chairman of the American Cancer Society.

Born in Torrington, Connecticut, Griswold served in the militia during the Revolutionary War.

Van Doren died in Torrington, Connecticut on July 18, 1950.

Category: People from Torrington, Connecticut

She also starred in a Warner Theatre ( Torrington, Connecticut ) 1999 production of The Miracle Worker.

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.

Golaski was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1913.