Chipshop

Human settlement in England

Lamerton

District

West Devon

Devon

Region

South West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townTAVISTOCKPostcode districtPL19Dialling code01822Police 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 / 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 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]

References

^ Dowrick, Molly (24 January 2001). "Secrets of Chipshop: Life in the blissful Devon hamlet hardly anyone knows about". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
^ "The Copper Penny Inn". Huntley and Partners.