Chipshop Explained

Country:England
Static Image Name:Chipshop_-_geograph.org.uk_-_192086.jpg
Static Image Caption:Pub and houses at the centre of Chipshop
Official Name:Chipshop
Coordinates:50.554°N -4.207°W
Population:58
Population Ref:(2001 Census)
Civil Parish:Lamerton
Shire District:West Devon
Shire County:Devon
Region:South West England
Constituency Westminster:Torridge and West Devon
Post Town:TAVISTOCK
Postcode District:PL19
Postcode Area:PL
Dial Code:01822
Os Grid Reference:SX437757

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 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 only at locations such as inns.[1] One of these inns, the "Hare and Hounds", thus became colloquially known as the "Chipshop Inn", and the hamlet which formed around it took its name from this. The inn, which is still open today, is now known as the "Copper Penny Inn".[2]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Dowrick . Molly . Secrets of Chipshop: Life in the blissful Devon hamlet hardly anyone knows about . 16 September 2023 . Plymouth Herald . 24 January 2001.
  2. Web site: The Copper Penny Inn . Huntley and Partners.