Chipshop

This article is about the hamlet in Devon. For the food service establishment, see fish and chip shop.
Chipshop
Chipshop
 Chipshop shown within Devon
Population 58 (2001 Census)
OS grid referenceSX437757
DistrictWest Devon
Shire countyDevon
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town TAVISTOCK
Postcode district PL19
Dialling code 01822
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Devon and Somerset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentTorridge and West Devon
List of places
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Coordinates: 50°33′14″N 4°12′25″W / 50.554°N 4.207°W / 50.554; -4.207

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. The inn gained the name, and the hamlet grew up around it and took its name.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Copper mining history Crying Fox

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