Shiphay

Shiphay is a district in the north of Torquay. It has population of about 6,000 and is the location of two grammar schools, three primary schools, the District Hospital, also of Torquay’s fire station. The ward is called Shiphay-with-the-Willows and at the 2011 census had a population of 9,525. Being mostly built-up there is little to attract the tourist, though Cockington and other attractions are within easy reach.

The name is said to be from Saxon origin, meaning "sheep enclosure", the original hamlet being at the boundary of the sheep rearing lands of Torre Abbey. The area itself has also been a pig farm and a quarry. Until after World War I it was a small hamlet, so small that it did not even rate a mention in the Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiphay

Lockdown Necessities:

https://www.torbay.gov.uk/health-and-wellbeing/public-health/coronavirus/torquay-food-deliveries/

Council:

https://www.torbay.gov.uk/ 

OpenStreetMap:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=shiphay#map=14/50.4781/-3.5584

Genuki:

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Tormoham

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/TorquayStMarychurch

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Cockington

Tithe Maps:

https://www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvironment/tithe-map/torquay-tormoham/

https://www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvironment/tithe-map/torquay-st-marychurch/

https://www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvironment/tithe-map/cockington/

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