Chipshop
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Chipshop | |
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Pub and houses at the centre of Chipshop | |
Chipshop Location within Devon | |
Population | 58 (2001 Census) |
OS grid reference | SX437757 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | TAVISTOCK |
Postcode district | PL19 |
Dialling code | 01822 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Devon and Somerset |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Chipshop is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lamerton in the West Devon district of Devon, England. Its nearest town is Tavistock, which lies approximately 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south-east from the hamlet. The hamlet is situated on the B3362 and consists of approximately a dozen residences and a public house, the "Copper Penny Inn" (formerly the "Chipshop Inn"). The name of the hamlet is nothing to do with fish and chip shops – miners in the local copper and arsenic mines were paid by scrip in the form of "chips" which they could exchange for goods at locations such as inns.[citation needed] The inn gained the name, and the hamlet grew up around it and took its name.[1][better source needed]
References[]
- ^ Copper mining history Crying Fox
Categories:
- Hamlets in Devon