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- Saltash is a picturesque little town well worth a day for a visit.
It's many shops provide you with all that you need and it's friendly
pubs are a joy to be included in!
Come to Saltash for fun and frolics any day of the week!!
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- Known as
the Gateway to Cornwall, Saltash lies on the River Tamar.
- Saltash has good leisure facilities
including sailing, a country club, a leisure center and is close to the sea and the major
city of Plymouth.
- Transport includes a railway station and the
main A38 trunk road.
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- Saltash has a small but pleasant shopping
high street, which lies in the heart of the town.
- In 1829 easy contact with the outside world
was made with the installation of a floating bridge or ferry over the Tamar.
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- Some Historical Notes.
- Saltash owes it's status as a town due to
the river crossing of the Tamar which has been in operation at least since Roman times. It
has also served as a port and safe harbour well before Plymouth and Devonport developed.
Little is known of its history before 1066 but then came the Norman
conquest and the construction of the castle at Trematon (on the
outskirts of Saltash near the village of Forder and can be viewed on
occasion in the year).
The castle was strongly linked to the early Christian cathedral at
St.Germans.
An early church building (Norman) was St Nicholas and St Faith just
uphill from the ferry crossing. This however was not the main parish
church for Saltash which is St Stephens (Perpendicular mainly 15th
century) about a mile from the center of the town.
Sir Francis Drake of the Armada fame had strong connections with
Saltash. He married a Saltash girl (Mary Newman - whose cottage is
preserved and can be visited) and used the port facilities to unload
some Spanish treasure ships of their cargo.
Another significant change was the coming of the railway. The Great
Western Railway and the construction of the Royal Albert Bridge made
available markets for products (mainly agricultural) and brought about
changes in the development of the town.
The Saltash ferry continued to operate for road and passenger services
but this changed in 1961 with the construction of the Tamar road bridge.
This enabled direct road links across to Plymouth and to the main trunk
road network across the country. A new Saltash Ferry now operates to the
Barbican in Plymouth and Calstock.
The Waterside area of Saltash is dominated by these two major bridges.
Recent times has seen the provision of a tunnel for the main A38 road to
relieve the congestion in the shopping center of the town.
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Map of the area
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SUMMER FERRY SERVICE PLYMOUTH TO
SALTASH
Stay on board for
a round trip, or return on a later ferry. This trip takes
you across Plymouth Sound, passing the Naval Dockyard to the
Bridges at Saltash.
Tickets for most cruises can be purchased either kiosk
Phoenix Wharf or Ferry Office Calstock and Ashtorre Rock
Community Centre (under the bridge, follow signs for
Waterside) at Saltash.
Plymouth
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