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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Torrington railway station was a railway station located in Great Torrington, Devon. It was closed by British Railways in 1965 as part of the Beeching...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Grade II* listed in 1960, is a conspicuous sight from Castle Hill, Great Torrington, across the River Torridge valley. Cross House is especially notable...
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    an asterisk (*) Cheryl Cottle-Hunkin was a sitting councillor for Great Torrington ward. By-election triggered by death of Green councillor Peter Christie...
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    The Pannier Market in Great Torrington in Devon is a Victorian pannier market of 12 small indoor shops - six either side of a narrow cobbled lane built...
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  • racehorse Beam (nautical), the width of a ship at its widest point Beam, Great Torrington, an estate in Devon, England Balance beam, or beam, a piece of gymnastics...
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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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    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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