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|official_name= Torpoint | |official_name= Torpoint | ||
|cornish_name= Penntorr | |cornish_name= Penntorr | ||
|population= | | population = 7,444 | ||
|population_ref= | | population_ref = (Parish, 2021)<ref name=2021census>{{cite web |title=2021 Census Parish Profiles |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp |website=NOMIS |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=31 March 2025}} (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)</ref><br>{{nowrap|7,160 (Built up area, 2021)<ref name=bua>{{cite web |title=Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021 |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/townsandcitiescharacteristicsofbuiltupareasenglandandwales/census2021 |website=Census 2021 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=8 August 2023}}</ref>}} | ||
|civil_parish= Torpoint | |civil_parish= Torpoint | ||
|unitary_england= [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]] | |unitary_england= [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]] | ||
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|static_image_caption= The Ellis Memorial in memory of James B. Ellis a Torpoint man who drowned in July 1897 trying to save two boys from the river Tamar. | |static_image_caption= The Ellis Memorial in memory of James B. Ellis a Torpoint man who drowned in July 1897 trying to save two boys from the river Tamar. | ||
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'''Torpoint''' ({{langx|kw|Penntorr}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magakernow.org.uk/pdf/placename_masterlist.pdf|title=List of Place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel|access-date=11 January 2015|publisher=Cornish Language Partnership|date=May 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729194902/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/pdf/placename_masterlist.pdf|archive-date=29 July 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>) is a town and [[civil parish]] on the [[Rame Peninsula]] in southeast [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of [[Plymouth]] across the [[Hamoaze]] which is the tidal estuary of the [[River Tamar]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23146-3}}</ref> | '''Torpoint''' ({{langx|kw|Penntorr}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magakernow.org.uk/pdf/placename_masterlist.pdf|title=List of Place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel|access-date=11 January 2015|publisher=Cornish Language Partnership|date=May 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729194902/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/pdf/placename_masterlist.pdf|archive-date=29 July 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>) is a town and [[civil parish]] on the [[Rame Peninsula]] in southeast [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of [[Plymouth]] across the [[Hamoaze]] which is the tidal estuary of the [[River Tamar]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23146-3}}</ref> At the [[2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses|2021 census]] the parish had a population of 7,444 and the built up area had a population of 7,160. | ||
Torpoint is linked to Plymouth (and [[Devonport, Devon|Devonport]]) by the [[Torpoint Ferry]]. The three vessels that operate the service are [[Cable ferry|chain ferries]] – that is, they are propelled across the river by pulling themselves on fixed chains which lie across the bed of the river. The journey takes about seven minutes. | Torpoint is linked to Plymouth (and [[Devonport, Devon|Devonport]]) by the [[Torpoint Ferry]]. The three vessels that operate the service are [[Cable ferry|chain ferries]] – that is, they are propelled across the river by pulling themselves on fixed chains which lie across the bed of the river. The journey takes about seven minutes. | ||
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In 1796 Torpoint was the setting for a shooting battle between the crew of a government vessel, the ''Viper'', and a large party of armed liquor [[smugglers]], in which one person was killed and five people seriously wounded.<ref>Codd, Daniel. ''Paranormal Devon'' (2013). Amberley Publishing. p.9-10. {{ISBN|9781848681668}}.</ref> | In 1796 Torpoint was the setting for a shooting battle between the crew of a government vessel, the ''Viper'', and a large party of armed liquor [[smugglers]], in which one person was killed and five people seriously wounded.<ref>Codd, Daniel. ''Paranormal Devon'' (2013). Amberley Publishing. p.9-10. {{ISBN|9781848681668}}.</ref> | ||
Due to the presence of [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport Dockyard]], the town grew as Dockyard workers settled there. The establishment of the [[Royal Navy]]'s main training facility, [[HMS Raleigh (shore establishment)|HMS ''Raleigh'']] also increased the population of Torpoint.<ref name=History>{{cite web|title=History of Torpoint|url=http://www.torpointtowncouncil.gov.uk/history.htm|publisher=Torpoint Town Council|access-date=16 December 2011}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> | Due to the presence of [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport Dockyard]], the town grew as Dockyard workers settled there. The establishment of the [[Royal Navy]]'s main training facility, [[HMS Raleigh (shore establishment)|HMS ''Raleigh'']] also increased the population of Torpoint.<ref name=History>{{cite web|title=History of Torpoint|url=http://www.torpointtowncouncil.gov.uk/history.htm|publisher=Torpoint Town Council|access-date=16 December 2011}}+{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> | ||
=== Parish churches === | === Parish churches === | ||
Torpoint has four parish churches known at "Maryfield Church", "Torpoint Cornerstone Church" , "Catholic Church of Saint Joan of Arc" and "St James Church" | Torpoint has four parish churches known at "Maryfield Church", "Torpoint Cornerstone Church" , "Catholic Church of Saint Joan of Arc" and "St James Church" | ||
==Notable people from Torpoint== | |||
[[File:Portrait of John Langdon Down (c 1870) by Sydney Hodges.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[John Langdon Down]] ca. 1870]] | |||
*[[John Langdon Down]] | See also [[:Category:People from Torpoint]] | ||
* [[Jack Stephens (footballer)|Jack Stephens]] | * [[Nicholas Condy]] (1793–1857), an English painter.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Condy, Nicholas |volume= 12 |last= Boase |first= George Clement |author-link= George Clement Boase |page= 5 |year= |short=1}}</ref> | ||
* [[Walter Coulson]] (1795–1860), newspaper editor, barrister, writer and Parliamentary reporter on the ''[[Morning Chronicle]]''.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Coulson, Walter |volume= 12 |last= Courtney |first= William Prideaux |author-link= William Prideaux Courtney |pages= 325-326 |year= |short=1}}</ref> | |||
* [[John Langdon Down]] (1828–1896), physician, described the genetic condition [[Down syndrome]] in 1828 | |||
===Sport=== | |||
* [[Roy Carter (footballer)|Roy Carter]] (born 1954), footballer, played almost 500 games including 200 for [[Swindon Town F.C.|Swindon Town]] & 152 for [[Newport County A.F.C.|Newport County]] | |||
* [[Pete Goss]] (born 1961), a British yachtsman, lives locally | |||
* [[David Wetherill]] (born 1989), [[table tennis]] player who has competed in three [[Paralympic Games]] | |||
* [[Lloyd Fairbrother]] (born 1991), a Welsh rugby union player who has played 172 games for the [[Dragons RFC]] | |||
* [[Jack Stephens (footballer)|Jack Stephens]] (born 1994), footballer, played over 240 games including 177 for [[Southampton F.C.| | |||
Southampton]] | |||
==Education== | ==Education== | ||
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*Carbeile Junior School — a large [[primary school]]. | *Carbeile Junior School — a large [[primary school]]. | ||
*[[Torpoint Community College]], a small secondary school. | *[[Torpoint Community College]], a small secondary school. | ||
==Governance== | |||
[[File:York Rd - geograph.org.uk - 5186521.jpg|thumb|Council Hall, corner of York Road and Buller Road (built 1904 as United Methodist Church)]] | |||
There are two tiers of local government covering Torpoint, at [[Parish council (England)|parish]] (town) and [[Unitary authorities of England|unitary authority]] level: Torpoint Town Council and [[Cornwall Council]]. The town council meets at the Council Hall at the corner of York Road and Buller Road and has its offices in an adjoining pair of converted houses at 1-3 Buller Road.<ref>{{cite web |title=Council meetings |url=https://www.torpointtowncouncil.gov.uk/meetings.php |website=Torpoint Town Council |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref> | |||
===Administrative history=== | |||
Torpoint historically formed part of the [[ancient parish]] of [[Antony, Cornwall|Antony]] in the [[East Wivelshire]] Hundred of Cornwall.<ref name=AntonyVoB>{{cite web |title=Antony Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10090647#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref> | |||
Torpoint was made a separate [[ecclesiastical parish]] from Antony in 1873, although it remained part of Antony for civil purposes until 1904.<ref name=Kelly>{{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Cornwall |date=1914 |page=343 |url=https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/296395/rec/1 |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref> When elected parish and district councils were created under the [[Local Government Act 1894]], Antony was given a parish council and included in the [[St Germans Rural District]].<ref name=AntonyVoB/> The first chairman of Antony Parish Council was Joseph Shepheard of Torpoint.<ref>{{cite news |title=Antony |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000329%2F18950223&page=6 |access-date=14 September 2025 |work=Western Morning News |date=23 February 1895 |location=Plymouth |page=6 |quote=Mr Joseph Shepheard JP... the first chairman of the Antony Parish Council...}}</ref> | |||
In 1904 Torpoint was removed from the civil parish of Antony and the St Germans Rural District to become its own [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban district]].<ref name=Kelly/> In 1933 Torpoint Urban District Council bought the former United Methodist Church (built 1904) at the corner of York Road and Buller Road and converted it to serve as its meeting place and a public hall, renaming it the Council Hall.<ref>{{cite news |title=Methodist Church as offices: Torpoint Council negotiations |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000329%2F19330204&page=10 |access-date=14 September 2025 |work=Western Morning News |date=4 February 1933 |location=Plymouth |page=10}}</ref><ref name=TChistory>{{cite web |title=History of Torpoint |url=https://www.torpointtowncouncil.gov.uk/mobile/menu_page.php?id=2 |website=Torpoint Town Council |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref> The building was formally re-opened in its new role in November 1934.<ref>{{cite news |title=Silver key ceremony at new Council Hall |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000329%2F19341102&page=7 |access-date=14 September 2025 |work=Western Morning News |date=2 November 2025 |location=Plymouth |page=7}}</ref> The council built itself offices adjoining the Council Hall in 1937.<ref name=TChistory/> | |||
Torpoint Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Torpoint Urban District |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10023798 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref> The area became part of the new [[Caradon]] district.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|accessdate=3 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|accessdate=3 March 2023}}</ref> A [[successor parish]] called Torpoint was created at the same time, covering the area of the abolished urban district.<ref name=successor>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Successor Parishes) Order 1973|year=1973|number=1110|access-date=31 August 2025}}</ref> As part of the 1974 reforms, parish councils were given the right to declare their parishes to be a town, allowing them to take the title of town council and giving the title of [[Mayors in England|mayor]] to the council's chairperson.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|section=245|access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref> The new parish council for Torpoint exercised this right, taking the name Torpoint Town Council. Ron Widdecombe was the first mayor.<ref name=TChistory/> | |||
Caradon district was abolished in 2009. Cornwall County Council then took on district-level functions, making it a unitary authority, and was renamed Cornwall Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Cornwall (Structural Change) Order 2008|year=2008|number=491|access-date=19 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009|year=2009|number=837|article=3}}</ref> | |||
==Sport and leisure== | ==Sport and leisure== | ||
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==Twinning== | ==Twinning== | ||
Torpoint is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with [[Benodet]] (Benoded) in [[Brittany]], France.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.torpointtwinning.org.uk/about_us | publisher= Torpoint & District Twinning Association | title= About Us | access-date= 5 December 2011 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120426022147/http://www.torpointtwinning.org.uk/about_us | archive-date= 26 April 2012 | df= dmy-all }}</ref> | Torpoint is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with [[Benodet]] (Benoded) in [[Brittany]], France.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.torpointtwinning.org.uk/about_us | publisher= Torpoint & District Twinning Association | title= About Us | access-date= 5 December 2011 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120426022147/http://www.torpointtwinning.org.uk/about_us | archive-date= 26 April 2012 | df= dmy-all }}</ref> | ||
== Town Events and Holidays == | == Town Events and Holidays == | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
{{Commons category|Torpoint}} | {{Commons category|Torpoint}} | ||
{{Portal|Cornwall}} | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090123053024/http://torpoint.org/ Torpoint website] | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090123053024/http://torpoint.org/ Torpoint website] | ||
* [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='torpoint') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Torpoint] | * [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='torpoint') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Torpoint] | ||
Latest revision as of 17:25, 23 December 2025
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Torpoint (Template:Langx[1]) is a town and civil parish on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of Plymouth across the Hamoaze which is the tidal estuary of the River Tamar.[2] At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 7,444 and the built up area had a population of 7,160.
Torpoint is linked to Plymouth (and Devonport) by the Torpoint Ferry. The three vessels that operate the service are chain ferries – that is, they are propelled across the river by pulling themselves on fixed chains which lie across the bed of the river. The journey takes about seven minutes.
Origin of name
It is said that Torpoint's name is derived from Tar Point, a name given because of the initial industry on the west bank of the Hamoaze. However this is actually a nickname given by workers, Torpoint meaning "rocky headland".[3]
History
Torpoint is an eighteenth-century planned town. The grid-based design for the town was commissioned by Reginald Pole Carew in the Parish of Antony in 1774. His family continue to have a strong influence in the area, having become the Carew Poles in the twentieth century, and still reside at their family seat, Antony House.
In 1796 Torpoint was the setting for a shooting battle between the crew of a government vessel, the Viper, and a large party of armed liquor smugglers, in which one person was killed and five people seriously wounded.[4]
Due to the presence of Devonport Dockyard, the town grew as Dockyard workers settled there. The establishment of the Royal Navy's main training facility, HMS Raleigh also increased the population of Torpoint.[5]
Parish churches
Torpoint has four parish churches known at "Maryfield Church", "Torpoint Cornerstone Church" , "Catholic Church of Saint Joan of Arc" and "St James Church"
Notable people from Torpoint
See also Category:People from Torpoint
- Nicholas Condy (1793–1857), an English painter.[6]
- Walter Coulson (1795–1860), newspaper editor, barrister, writer and Parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle.[7]
- John Langdon Down (1828–1896), physician, described the genetic condition Down syndrome in 1828
Sport
- Roy Carter (born 1954), footballer, played almost 500 games including 200 for Swindon Town & 152 for Newport County
- Pete Goss (born 1961), a British yachtsman, lives locally
- David Wetherill (born 1989), table tennis player who has competed in three Paralympic Games
- Lloyd Fairbrother (born 1991), a Welsh rugby union player who has played 172 games for the Dragons RFC
- Jack Stephens (born 1994), footballer, played over 240 games including 177 for Southampton
Education
Educational institutions in Torpoint include:[8]
- Torpoint Infant School — a medium-large infant school.
- Carbeile Junior School — a large primary school.
- Torpoint Community College, a small secondary school.
Governance
There are two tiers of local government covering Torpoint, at parish (town) and unitary authority level: Torpoint Town Council and Cornwall Council. The town council meets at the Council Hall at the corner of York Road and Buller Road and has its offices in an adjoining pair of converted houses at 1-3 Buller Road.[9]
Administrative history
Torpoint historically formed part of the ancient parish of Antony in the East Wivelshire Hundred of Cornwall.[10]
Torpoint was made a separate ecclesiastical parish from Antony in 1873, although it remained part of Antony for civil purposes until 1904.[11] When elected parish and district councils were created under the Local Government Act 1894, Antony was given a parish council and included in the St Germans Rural District.[10] The first chairman of Antony Parish Council was Joseph Shepheard of Torpoint.[12]
In 1904 Torpoint was removed from the civil parish of Antony and the St Germans Rural District to become its own urban district.[11] In 1933 Torpoint Urban District Council bought the former United Methodist Church (built 1904) at the corner of York Road and Buller Road and converted it to serve as its meeting place and a public hall, renaming it the Council Hall.[13][14] The building was formally re-opened in its new role in November 1934.[15] The council built itself offices adjoining the Council Hall in 1937.[14]
Torpoint Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.[16] The area became part of the new Caradon district.[17][18] A successor parish called Torpoint was created at the same time, covering the area of the abolished urban district.[19] As part of the 1974 reforms, parish councils were given the right to declare their parishes to be a town, allowing them to take the title of town council and giving the title of mayor to the council's chairperson.[20] The new parish council for Torpoint exercised this right, taking the name Torpoint Town Council. Ron Widdecombe was the first mayor.[14]
Caradon district was abolished in 2009. Cornwall County Council then took on district-level functions, making it a unitary authority, and was renamed Cornwall Council.[21][22]
Sport and leisure
Torpoint has a non-league football club, Torpoint Athletic F.C., which plays at The Mill.
Cornish wrestling
Cornish wrestling tournaments, for prizes, were held in Torpoint in the 1700s.[23]
Twinning
Torpoint is twinned with Benodet (Benoded) in Brittany, France.[24]
Town Events and Holidays
Freedom of Torpoint march[25]
St Piran's day[26]
Armed Forces Day[27]
Commonwealth Day[28]
Day of Accession Council and Principal Proclamation[29]
Merchant Navy Day[30]
St George's Day[31]
Christmas Lights Switch On[32]
Civic Service[33]
References
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External links
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