Salcombe
Salcombe is a popular hotel town in the South Hams district of Devon, south west England. The community is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, mainly built on the steep west side of the estuary. It exists within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The community's extensive waterside and the naturally protected harbour created by the tidewater generated its success as a boat as well as shipbuilding and sailing port and also, in modern times, tourism particularly in the form of pleasure cruising as well as yacht. The community is additionally house to a typical shellfish angling sector. The community belongs to the selecting ward of Salcombe as well as Malborough, for which the 2011 census recorded a total population of 3,353. Kingsbridge Estuary (in fact a ria or sank valley) exists between Bolt Head and Sharpitor on the west and also Portlemouth Down on the eastern, as well as 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 additionally a Local Nature Reserve.