Torrington may refer to:

People

Arthur Torrington Arthur Torrington CBE is a Guyanese-born community advocate and historian who is Director and co-founder of the London-based Windrush Foundation, a charity that since 1996 has been working to highlight the contributions to the UK of African and Ca ...

, Guyanese-born co-founder of the Windrush Foundation and the Equiano Society *

Jeff Torrington Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland. His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. ''Swing Hammer Swing'' (1992) was set during the demolition of the old Gorbals. It took 30 years t ...

, Scottish writer *

John Torrington John Shaw Torrington (1825—1 January 1846) was a Royal Navy stoker. He was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart unexplored areas of what is now Nunavut, Canada, find the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations. He was the ...

, English explorer and Royal Navy stoker *

George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, (27 January 1663 – 17 January 1733), of Southill Park in Bedfordshire, was a Royal Navy officer and statesman. While still a lieutenant, he delivered a letter from various captains t ...

, British naval officer and statesman

Places

Australia

Torrington, New South Wales Torrington (formerly Torington) is a small village in northern New South Wales in Tenterfield Shire. It is 29 kilometres north west of Deepwater and south west of Tenterfield and 61 kilometres from Glen Innes (South-East). It is sit ...

Torrington, Queensland Torrington is a rural locality in Toowoomba in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Torrington had a population of 879 people. History Torrington was in the Shire of Jondaryan until the amalgamation in 2008 that created the To ...

Canada

Torrington, Alberta Torrington is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Kneehill County. It is located approximately northeast of Calgary at the junction of Highway 27 and Highway 805. The hamlet is located in Census Division No. 5 and in the federal ridi ...

United Kingdom

Black Torrington Black Torrington is a village and civil parish in mid Devon, England, situated between the towns of Holsworthy and Hatherleigh. It is located on and named after the River Torridge. Within the village is a small but well maintained 15th-century ...

, a village in Devon * East Torrington, a small village in Lincolnshire *

Great Torrington Great Torrington (often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a market town in Devon, England. Parts of it are sited on high ground with steep drops down to ...

, a market town in north Devon *

Little Torrington 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 civil parish of Little Torrington was 420 and in 2011 it was 376, according to census data. L ...

, a village in Devon *

West Torrington West Torrington is a small hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the edge of Bleasby Moor and north from Wragby. The 2001 Census recorded a West Torrington population of 69, increasing to 128 at the ...

, a small village in Lincolnshire *

Torrington (UK Parliament constituency) 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 Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the February 1974 ...

, in Devon

United States

Torrington, Connecticut Torrington is the most populated municipality and only city in Litchfield County, Connecticut, Litchfield County, Connecticut and the Northwest Hills (Connecticut), Northwest Hills region. It is also the core city of Greater Torrington, one of the ...

Torrington, Wyoming Torrington is a city in, and the county seat of, Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 6,501 at the 2010 census. It is the home of Eastern Wyoming College, and is the surrounding region's center of commercial activity. With ...

* Westford- Nabnasset (Torrington Lane), Massachusetts

Other uses

Battle of Torrington The Battle of Torrington (16 February 1646) was a decisive battle of the south-western campaign of the First English Civil War and marked the end of Royalist resistance in the West Country. It took place in Torrington, Devon. Prelude After ...

, fought in 1646 during the English Civil War *

Earl of Torrington The title of Earl of Torrington was created twice in the Peerage of England. The first creation was in 1660 as a subsidiary title of the Duke of Albemarle. Following the extinction of this title in 1688, the title was created anew in 1689, but b ...

, a title in the British peerage *

Viscount Torrington Viscount Torrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1721 for the statesman Sir George Byng, 1st Baronet, along with the subsidiary title Baron Byng, of Southill in the County of Bedford, also in the Peerage of Gre ...

, a title in the British peerage * HMS ''Torrington'', the name of four ships of the Royal Navy * SS ''Torrington'', British collier built in 1905, sunk by German submarine in April 1917 *'' Torrington,'' a sailing brig built in 1847 in Nova Scotia, which sank in New Zealand in 1851 * Torrington F.C., football club in Great Torrington, Devon *

Torrington railway station 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 cuts."Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury,P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing History B ...

, Devon *

Torrington Company The Torrington Company was a firm that developed in Torrington, Connecticut, emerging as a rename from the Excelsior Needle Company. It used a "cold swaging" technique to create sewing machine needles and other needles from cold metal, and was th ...

, Antifriction Bearing Company