Saltash

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Saltash

Coordinates50.41°, -4.21°

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Overview

Saltash is a town and civil parish in eastern Cornwall, England. Saltash faces the city of Plymouth over the River Tamar and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Cornwall". Saltash's landmarks include the Tamar Bridge which connects Plymouth to Cornwall by road, and the Royal Albert Bridge. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 16,288 and the population of the built up area was 15,435.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

J

John of Cornwall

Christian scholar and teacher

John Langdon Down

British physician and first person to describe Down syndrome (1828-1896)

John Eliot

Member of Parliament, Statesman and Vice-Admiral of Devon (1592-1632)

R

Ralph Alger Bagnold

English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier

Donald Sinden

English actor (1923–2014)

Sheryll Murray

British politician (born 1956)

Karl Menzies

racing cyclist

Guy Burgess

British-born radio producer, intelligence and Foreign Office officer and double agent

D

Dick Bush

British cinematographer (1931–1997)

Penn Symons

British Army officer

G

George Carew

English diplomat and historian (1556-1612)

Joseph Mortimer Granville

English doctor, author, and inventor (1833–1900)

H

Harold Wellman

New Zealand geologist (1909–1999)

M

Michael Anderson

Cricket player, born 1916 (1916–1940)

George Henry Richards

naval officer, Hydrographer of the Royal Navy 1863-1874 (1820-1896)

Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden

Governor of New South Wales (1841-1906)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Plympton
  6.8 mi away
• Callington
  7.9 mi away
• Looe
  11.4 mi away
• Dartmeet
  17.4 mi away
• Holne
  18.4 mi away
• Fowey
  19.4 mi away · pop. 2,131
• Buckland in the Moor
  20.1 mi away
• Kingsbridge
  20.9 mi away
• Dartington
  22.2 mi away
• Salcombe
  22.6 mi away · pop. 2,200
• Chagford
  24.5 mi away
• Camelford
  25.3 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Saltash

Ince Castle

1996

Saltash

Joan Rendell · 2004

Description of the centre pier of the Saltash Bridge

Robert Pearson Brereton · 1864

Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge

John Binding · 1997

A statement of the evidence and arguments of counsel before the Committee of the House of Commons, upon the controverted election for Saltash

Braybrooke, Richard Griffin Baron · 1808

Centenary of Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, and opening of Cornwall Railway from Plymouth to Truro, 1859-1959.

1959

Plymouth AZ street atlas

Geographers' A-Z Map Company · 1993

A history of Plymouth and her neighbours

Charles William Bracken · 1931

Search results from Open Library.

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