Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Or see fish and chip shop.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 at locations such as inns.[citation needed] The inn gained the name, and the hamlet grew up around it and took its name.. }
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- Chipshop abstract "Or see fish and chip shop.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 at locations such as inns.[citation needed] The inn gained the name, and the hamlet grew up around it and took its name.".