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Torpoint (Cornish: Penntorr) 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. Torpoint had a population of 8,457 at the 2001 census, decreasing to 8,364 at the 2011 census.
- Torpoint Ferry
The Torpoint Ferry is a car and pedestrian chain ferry...
- Torpoint Ferry
Torpoint Cornwall Information & Accommodation Guide. Torpoint is a busy town standing on the River Tamar on the point of its estuary known as the Hamoaze, famous as a ferry crossing since the 1700s, when the town was first established.
1894 Torpoint Parish Council first formed with Mr Joseph Shepheard as its Chairman. 1904 Town upgraded to Urban District. 1906 In May the population was estimated to be 4,200 with 704 houses. The quality of education was boosted in 1910 with the opening of a boy’s school in Albion Road with 164 boys being admitted.
The three chain ferries provide service 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year and offer a 10 minute frequency at peak times. The Torpoint Ferry crossing is the busiest estuarial vehicular ferry crossing in the United Kingdom, and the three vessels together carry nearly two million vehicles per annum.
Torpoint developed from the late 18th century as a naval maintenance base and ferry point on the River Tamar. Torpoint sits comfortably on the western side of the tidal Tamar, mainly on sunny south-facing slopes, sheltered from much of the Channel weather by the Rame peninsula.
Torpoint 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.
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