The proposed " Bideford and Bude " would join Bideford, Torrington, and Hartland with Tintagel, Bude and Launceston.

The proposed " Bideford and Bude " would join Bideford, Torrington, and Hartland with Tintagel, Bude and Launceston.

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.

* 1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.

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

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 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.

The following day, 10 July, off Beachy Head near Eastbourne Torrington advanced towards the French in line of battle.

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.

From June 1963 the Bude, Torrington and Plymouth through carriages were withdrawn except on summer Saturdays.

)-Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Bantry Bay between the English Royal Navy under the Earl of Torrington and the French fleet under the Marquis de Châteaurenault.

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.

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.

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

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.

* The Battle of Beachy Head ( 1690 ), during the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the Earl of Torrington and a French fleet under the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville.

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

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.

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

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 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.

* 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.

* April 14 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral ( b. c. 1648 )

) 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.

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.

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

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

Its county seat is Torrington.

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

* Woburn Square and Torrington Square, home to other parts of University College London.

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

The Council came about from a name change of Torrington Council in 1929.

Torrington 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.

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.

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

( c ) British imperial interests were alarmed when in 1894 – 95 Kruger proposed building a railway through Portuguese East Africa to Delagoa Bay, bypassing British controlled ports in Natal and Cape Town and avoiding British tariffs.

In 1908, two ways of avoiding the paradox were proposed, Russell's type theory and the Zermelo set theory, the first constructed axiomatic set theory.

In addition, critics state that unlike Malthus, Ehrlich did not see any means of avoiding the disaster entirely ( although some mitigation was possible ), and proposed solutions that were much more radical than those discussed by Malthus, such as starving whole countries that refused to implement population control measures.

Suggested healthy habits such as avoiding repetitive stress, work modification through use of ergonomic equipment ( wrist rest, mouse pad ), taking proper breaks, using keyboard alternatives ( digital pen, voice recognition, and dictation ), and employing early treatments such as taking turmeric ( anti-inflammatory ), omega-3 fatty acids, and B vitamins have been proposed as methods to help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome.

From 1768 there were a number of grand schemes proposed, all with the aim of linking the Bristol Channel to the English Channel by a waterway, thereby avoiding the need to navigate by sea around Cornwall and Devon.

In the 1960s, Wallis also proposed using large cargo submarines to transport oil and other goods, thus avoiding surface weather conditions.

Placing astronauts in suspended animation has been proposed as one way for an individual to reach the end of an interstellar or intergalactic journey, avoiding the necessity for a gigantic generation ship ; occasionally the two concepts have been combined, with generations of " caretakers " supervising a large population of frozen passengers.

A number of design principles have been proposed for avoiding the uncanny valley:

The proposed treatment involves three parts: titrating to the proper guaifenesin dosage, avoiding salicylates, and following a low-carbohydrate diet if the patient is hypoglycemic.

He proposed avoiding a sea battle, except under very favourable conditions, until he could be reinforced.

The same environment structuring is now proposed as a way to control varying detail thus avoiding unnecessary computations, yet delivering adequate visual quality:

Depending on size of firm and how many redundancies are proposed, it may need to include ways of avoiding redundancies, saving jobs and mitigating effects of redundancy.

This supplemental environmental impact statement includes the staff's analysis that considers and weighs the environmental effects of the proposed action, the environmental impacts of alternatives to the proposed action, and alternatives available for reducing or avoiding adverse impacts.

However, in an effort to qualify for future awards of Federal funds for miles of route that had now been canceled, the SCRTD quickly started over ( the FTA requires formulas and studies before it approves funds, and then only for the precise route submitted ) and proposed that one leg of the subway would deviate from the Western Ave. bound tunnel and turn north on Vermont, west on Sunset, then north to the San Fernando Valley, thus avoiding Rep. Waxman's " no subway " zone.

Risikoff, among others, also proposed a discussion of the reinstatement of the Biblical status of the pilegesh, a relationship status between man and woman that does not require a Get upon dissolution, thereby avoiding the category of agunah.

Ursacius of Singidunum and Valens of Mursa soon proposed a new creed, drafted at the Council of Sirmium of 359 but not presented there, holding that the Son was like the Father " according to the scriptures ," and avoiding the controversial terms " same substance " and " similar substance.