Property Type:
Cottage

Sleeping Capacity:
0

Rates:
£ -

Description of Holiday Cottage

120 year old Devon stone cottage close to Kingsbridge Quay on the Salcombe estuary. Ideal base for two people to explore south Devon's beaches, wildlife and sample our local food.
KINGSBRIDGE , a market town in the Totnes parliamentary division of Devonshire, England, 48 m. S.S.W. of Exeter, on a branch of the Great Western railway. Pop. of urban district (1901), 3025. It lies 6 m. from the English Channel, at the head of an inlet or estuary which receives only small streams, on a sharply sloping site. The church of St Edmund is mainly Perpendicular, but there are Transitional Norman and Early English portions. The town-hall contains a natural history museum. A house called Pindar Lodge stands on the site of the birthplace of John Wolcot (" Peter Pindar," 1738-1819). William Cookworthy (1705-1780), a porcelain manufacturer, the first to exploit the deposits of kaolin in the south-west of England, was also born at Kingsbridge. The township of Dodbrooke, included within the civil parish, adjoins Kingsbridge on the northeast. Some iron-founding and ship-building, with a coasting trade, are carried on.

Beaches / Coast

Five miles from natural unspoilt beaches.

Further Details

Close to pubs, restaurants.

Location of Holiday Cottage

Comfortable Victorian character stone-built cottage close to Kingsbridge Quay in South Devon