Chipshop

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]

This article is about the hamlet in Devon. For the food service establishment, see fish and chip shop.

Chipshop
Pub and houses at the centre of Chipshop
Chipshop is located in Devon
Chipshop
Chipshop
Location within Devon
Population58 (2001 Census)
OS grid referenceSX437757
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTAVISTOCK
Postcode districtPL19
Dialling code01822
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

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