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    Great Torrington (often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a...
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    Torrington is the most populated municipality and largest city in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, and the Northwest Hills Planning Region...
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  • Wales Torrington, Queensland Torrington, Alberta Black Torrington, a village in Devon East Torrington, a small village in Lincolnshire Great Torrington, a...
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    Viscount Torrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The Peerage was created in 1721 for the statesman Sir George Byng, 1st Baronet, along...
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    Little Torrington is a village and a civil parish near Great Torrington, in the Torridge district, north Devon, England. In 2001 the population of the...
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    Beam is an historic estate in the parish of Great Torrington, Devon, England. Beam House is situated about 1 1/2 miles north-west and downstream of that...
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  • Great Torrington School is a mixed secondary school located in Great Torrington in the English county of Devon. Previously a foundation school administered...
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    gallery in Torrington, North Devon, England. The Plough is situated in a former Territorial Army drill hall on Fore Street in the centre of Torrington. The...
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    Beam, Great Torrington Rothern Bridge, Great Torrington Rolle Bridge, Great Torrington Taddiport Bridge, Great Torrington New Bridge, Great Torrington Iron...
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    based in the town of Bideford. The district also includes the towns of Great Torrington, Holsworthy and Northam, along with numerous villages and surrounding...
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    Great Torrington Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Great Torrington, Devon, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of...
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    Taddiport is a hamlet in North Devon, England, near Great Torrington. The name is believed to derive from toad, a place where toads were found. In the...
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  • gunpowder were accidentally ignited by a stray spark during the Battle of Torrington in the English Civil War, destroying the church in which the magazine...
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  • 50°57′11″N 4°08′28″W / 50.953°N 4.141°W / 50.953; -4.141 The Battle of Torrington (16 February 1646) was a decisive battle of the south-western campaign...
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    List of A roads in zone 3 in Great Britain starting west of the A3 and south of the A4 (roads beginning with 3). Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
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    William Johnson Cory (category People from Great Torrington)
    English version of the elegy Heraclitus by Callimachus. He was born at Great Torrington in Devon, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned...
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    Rolle Canal (redirect from Torrington Canal)
    southwards to the industrial mills and corn-mills at Town Mills, Rosemoor, Great Torrington and beyond to Healand Docks and weir on the Torridge, where survive...
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    The feudal barony of Great Torrington whose caput was Great Torrington Castle in Devonshire, was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed...
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    a grade II* listed Georgian residence built in 1752 in the town of Great Torrington, North Devon, England. It is notable as it retains many original features...
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    The Ainslie baronetcy, of Great Torrington in the County of Lincoln, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 November...
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    Barnstaple, Great Torrington, Bideford and Ilfracombe. Devon's Exmoor coast has the highest cliffs in southern Britain, culminating in the Great Hangman,...
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  • Torrington Football Club are an English association football club based in Great Torrington, Devon. Founded in 1908, the club currently compete in the...
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    Rolle (c. 1486 – 1552) following the dissolution of Dunkeswell Abbey. Great Torrington (lordship of manor of) purchased by Denys Rolle (1614–1638) from Sir...
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    West Torrington is a small hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the edge of Bleasby Moor and 3 miles (4.8 km)...
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    north Devon, England, situated about 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Great Torrington and 8 miles (13 km) south of Bideford. Its name means "tall tree"....
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  • Torrington was a county constituency centred on the town of Torrington in Devon. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the...
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  • Germansweek Gidleigh Gittisham Glendon Glenholt Golland Goodleigh Great Torrington Grenofen Haccombe Halberton Haldon Hallsands Halwell Halwill Harberton...
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    commemorate their ancestors. A full-scale replica of the ship was burnt in Great Torrington in Devon on 28 August 2021, a year later than originally planned. The...
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    miles south of the town of Great Torrington, is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Little Torrington, Merton, Petrockstowe, Buckland...
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    John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Devon)
    He was the son of Dennis Rolle (died 1671) of Great Torrington (whose tombstone exists in Torrington Church), the younger brother of Robert Rolle (died...
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