Salcombe
Salcombe is a prominent hotel community in the South Hams area of Devon, south west England. The town is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, mainly built on the high west side of the tidewater. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The town's extensive waterfront and the normally protected harbour created by the estuary generated its success as a boat and also shipbuilding and also sailing port and also, in contemporary times, tourist particularly in the form of pleasure sailing and yachting. The town is additionally house to a standard shellfish fishing market. The town becomes part of the electoral ward of Salcombe as well as Malborough, for which the 2011 census recorded an overall population of 3,353. Kingsbridge Estuary (actually a ria or drowned valley) exists in between Bolt Head and Sharpitor on the west as well as Portlemouth Down on the east, and runs inland for some 8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi). The tidewater was assigned a Site of Special Scientific Interest in February 1987 and also is also a Local Nature Reserve.