Torpoint

Torpoint Cornish: Penntorr
Torpoint War Memorial
Torpoint Location within Cornwall
Population	8,457 (2001)
OS grid reference	SX438552
Ceevil pairish	Torpoint
Unitar authority	Cornwall
Ceremonial coonty	Cornwall
Region	Sooth Wast
Kintra	Ingland
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	TORPOINT
Postcode destrict	PL11
Diallin code	01752
Police	Devon an Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	Sooth Wastren
EU Pairlament	Sooth Wast Ingland
UK Pairlament	Sooth East Cornwall
Wabsteid	http://www.torpointtowncouncil.gov.uk
Leet o places UK Ingland Cornwall 50°22′34″N 4°12′18″W / 50.376°N 4.205°W / 50.376; -4.205Coordinates: 50°22′34″N 4°12′18″W / 50.376°N 4.205°W / 50.376; -4.205

Torpoint (Cornish: Penntorr) is a ceevil parish an toun on the Rame Peninsula in sootheast Cornwall, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick. It is situatit opposite the ceety o Plymouth athort the Hamoaze which is the tidal estuary o the River Tamar.^[1]

Torpoint haes a population o 8,457 (2001 census). In the Cornish leid Torpoint is cried Penntorr (local folk baund Pentorr hae taken their name frae this).

Torpoint is linked tae Plymouth (an Devonport) bi the Torpoint Ferry. The three vessels that operate the service are chain ferries – that is, they are propelled athort the river bi pullin thairsels on fixed chains which lie athort the bed o the river. The journey takes aboot seiven minutes.

It is said that Torpoint's name is derived frae Tar Point, a name gien acause o the initial industry on the wast bank o the Hamoaze. Housomeivver this is actually a nickname gien bi wirkers, Torpoint meanin "rocky heidland".^[2]

Torpoint is an aichteent century planned toun. The grid-based design for the toun wis commissioned bi Reginald Pole Carew in the Parish o Antony in 1774. His family continued te hae a strang influence in the aurie, haein become the Carew Poles, an still reside at their family seat, Antony House.

Due tae the presence o Devonport Dockyard, the toun grew as Dockyard wirkers settled there. The establishment o the Ryal Navy's main trainin facility, HMS Raleigh an aa increased the population o Torpoint.

See Category:Fowk frae Torpoint

John Langdon Down wis born in Torpoint in 1828, he later described the condition which is nou referred tae as Down syndrome. He wis cried back on a number o occasions tae help his faither in his local business till his faither's daith in 1853.

Educational institutions in Torpoint include:

• Torpoint Infant Schuil — a medium-lairge infant schuil.
• Carbeile Junior School — a lairge primary schuil.
• Torpoint Community College, The Humanities College for Sooth East Cornwall — the anerlie humanities college in sooth east Cornwall.

• Benoded (Breetany)

• Torpoint wabsteid Archived 2009-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for TorpointArchived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

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