Salcombe
Salcombe is a preferred resort town in the South Hams area of Devon, southern west England. The community is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, primarily improved the steep west side of the tidewater. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The community's considerable waterside and also the normally sheltered harbour formed by the estuary triggered its success as a boat as well as shipbuilding and sailing port and, in contemporary times, tourism especially in the form of satisfaction sailing and yachting. The community is likewise residence to a conventional shellfish angling sector. The community is part of the electoral ward of Salcombe and Malborough, for which the 2011 census recorded an overall population of 3,353. Kingsbridge Estuary (in fact a ria or sank valley) lies between Screw Head and also Sharpitor on the west as well as Portlemouth Down on the east, and also runs inland for some 8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi). The estuary was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in February 1987 and is likewise a Local Nature Reserve.
