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Shiphay, Torquay — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Shiphay is a district in the north of Torquay, built up around its schools, fields and hospital, with Edginswell Hall on the register.
About Shiphay
Where to stay in Shiphay
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Beds belong to Torquay. Shiphay is built-up ground given over to two grammar schools, three primary schools, the District Hospital and Torquay's fire station, so visitor traffic passes through rather than stops. Cockington lies within easy reach.
Edginswell Hall and St Michael's Chapel on Chapel Hill are the named buildings on the way out.
About Shiphay
What are the main landmarks in Shiphay?
Four names carry the register. St Michael's Chapel stands on Chapel Hill, St John The Baptist holds the parish dedication, and Torquay Cemetery keeps the De Reede De Ter Memorial east of its Anglican chapel. Edginswell Hall completes the list.
Beyond those the ground is fields, schools and housing, and the attractions that pull people to this part of Torquay, Cockington among them, sit outside Shiphay altogether.
What is the history of Shiphay?
Shiphay's paper history barely fills a line. What Shiphay keeps of its past stands in stone rather than in dates, in St Michael's Chapel on Chapel Hill, in the parish dedication to St John The Baptist, and in Edginswell Hall. Fields survive between the streets.
The ward took the compound name Shiphay-with-the-Willows, and the later growth shows instead in its schools, its District Hospital and Torquay's fire station.
Where is Shiphay?
Shiphay-with-the-Willows is the ward name for this stretch of the north of Torquay, where fields still break the housing and Cockington lies an easy run off.
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Updated September 2026