* 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.

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.

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

* 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.

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 sailed from the Nore already convinced the French would be stronger – much of the Royal Navy had been diverted to protect their maritime commerce from privateers, and the Allied fleet now only had 56 English and Dutch ships of the line, totalling 4, 153 guns, to Tourville's fleet of 4, 600 guns.

Unable to proceed to the westward to link up with Shovell and Killigrew ( who was on his way home ), Torrington announced his intention of retreating before the superior French fleet to the Straits of Dover, believing the loss of the ' fleet in being ' would strategically be too great.

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This replica can be seen in the Visitors Centre at the Torrington site.

He continued to be a close advisor to Grimond throughout the latter's leadership, but would never again be an MP, despite a third, unsuccessful, and equally close candidature for Torrington in the 1964 general election.

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 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.

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

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.

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.