Salcombe
Salcombe is a popular resort town in the South Hams area of Devon, southern west England. The community is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, mostly improved the high west side of the estuary. It exists within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The town's comprehensive waterside and the normally protected harbour developed by the estuary gave rise to its success as a boat and also shipbuilding as well as cruising port and, in modern times, tourism particularly in the form of pleasure sailing and yacht. The community is additionally home to a standard shellfish fishing market. The town becomes part of the electoral ward of Salcombe and Malborough, for which the 2011 census recorded an overall population of 3,353. Kingsbridge Estuary (really a ria or sank valley) exists in between Bolt Head as well as Sharpitor on the west and Portlemouth Down on the eastern, 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 is likewise a Local Nature Reserve.
