Chipshop

Chipshop
Chipshop
	Pub and houses at the centre of Chipshop
	Chipshop Location within Devon
Population	58 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SX437757
Civil parish	Lamerton;
District	West Devon;
Shire county	Devon;
Region	South West;
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	Torridge and West Devon;
	List of places UK England Devon 50°33′14″N 4°12′25″W / 50.554°N 4.207°W

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

[1] Copper mining history Crying Fox

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