Salcombe
Salcombe is a preferred resort town in the South Hams area of Devon, southern west England. The town is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, mainly improved the high west side of the estuary. It exists within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The community's comprehensive waterside as well as the normally protected harbour created by the estuary triggered its success as a watercraft and also shipbuilding and also sailing port and also, in contemporary times, tourism specifically in the form of pleasure cruising and also yachting. The town is additionally house to a conventional shellfish fishing sector. The town belongs to the electoral ward of Salcombe as well as Malborough, for which the 2011 census recorded a complete population of 3,353. Kingsbridge Estuary (in fact a ria or drowned valley) lies between Bolt Head and Sharpitor on the west and also Portlemouth Down on the east, and runs inland for some 8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi). The tidewater was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in February 1987 and is additionally a Local Nature Reserve.