Torpoint

Torpoint is a town and civil parish on the Rame Peninsula in southeast , United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of across the which is the tidal estuary of the .
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Town with 7,720 residents
  • Description: town on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Torpoint, Cornwall”, “トーポイント”, and “トールポイント”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Church of St James and HMNB Devonport.

Church
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Military installation
Photo: daisybush, CC BY 2.0.
His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport is the largest naval base in Western Europe, and one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY 4.0.
is a Great Western Railway suburban station on the Cornish Main Line in Devonport, , England. As the name implies, it serves . It is 248 miles 60 chains from via Box and Plymouth Millbay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morice Town and Devonport.

Suburb
is a suburb of in the English county of . It named after Sir William Morice who owned the land at the time that it was being developed for housing for the employees in the Dockyard.

Suburb
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formerly named Plymouth Dock or just Dock, is a district of in the county of , England. Becoming a county borough in 1888, was originally one of the "Three Towns" that merged to form what would eventually become the City of Plymouth in 1928.

Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Victorian-built area of in the county of . It was built to provide dense cheap housing just outside the wall of for the thousands of civilian workmen.

Torpoint

Latitude
50.37573° or 50° 22′ 33″ north
Longitude
-4.19912° or 4° 11′ 57″ west
Population
7,720
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB TPO
Open location code
9C2Q9RG2+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29627060
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2635651
Wiki­data ID
Q2041269
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Torpoint” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “توربوينت”
  • Asturian: “Torpoint”
  • Basque: “Penntorr”
  • Basque: “Torpoint”
  • Belarusian: “Тарпойнт”
  • Bengali: “টরপয়েন্ট”
  • Breton: “Penntorr”
  • Cebuano: “Torpoint”
  • Chinese: “托波因特”
  • Chinese: “拓尔普艾恩特”
  • Chinese: “拓爾普艾恩特”
  • Cornish: “Penntorr”
  • Czech: “Torpoint”
  • Dutch: “Torpoint”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “توربوينت”
  • French: “Torpoint”
  • Galician: “Torpoint”
  • German: “Torpoint”
  • Gujarati: “ટોરપોઇન્ટ”
  • Hebrew: “טורפוינט”
  • Indonesian: “Torpoint”
  • Irish: “Penntorr”
  • Irish: “Torpoint”
  • Italian: “Torpoint”
  • Japanese: “トアポイント”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್”
  • Korean: “토포인트”
  • Ladin: “Torpoint”
  • Lithuanian: “Torpointas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Torpoint”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Torpoint”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torpoint”
  • Norwegian: “Torpoint”
  • Persian: “تورپوینت”
  • Polish: “Torpoint”
  • Portuguese: “Torpoint”
  • Romanian: “Torpoint”
  • Russian: “Торпойнт”
  • Scots: “Torpoint”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تورپوینت”
  • Spanish: “Torpoint”
  • Swedish: “Torpoint”
  • Tamil: “தோர்பொய்ண்ட்”
  • Telugu: “టోర్పాయింట్”
  • Turkish: “Torpoint”
  • Urdu: “ٹورپوائنٹ”
  • Welsh: “Penntorr”
  • “Torpoint”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Lower Wilcove and Coombe Park.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Torpoint Post Office and Torpoint Nursery and Infant School.

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