Torpoint
Torpoint is a civil church as well as community on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, England, UK. It is positioned opposite the city of Plymouth across the Hamoaze which is the tidal tidewater of the River Tamar. Torpoint had a population of 8,457 at the 2001 census, decreasing to 8,364 at the 2011 census. Two selecting wards additionally exist (Torpoint East as well as West). Their consolidated populations at the exact same census were 7,717. In the Cornish language Torpoint is called Penntorr (regional individual band Pentorr have taken their name from this). Torpoint is connected to Plymouth (and Devonport) by the Torpoint Ferry. The three vessels that operate the solution are chain ferryboats-- that is, they are thrust across the river by pulling themselves on fixed chains which lie across the bed of the river. The journey takes around 7 minutes.
