Budleigh Salterton, Devon - Beach & Otter Head, huts - real photo postcard 1951

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Beach and Otter Head, Budleigh Salterton, Devon - real photo type
• Publisher:  Photo Precision Ltd.
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d brown
• Postmark(s):  Budleigh Salterton 25 Aug 1951 machine cancel
• Sent to:  Miss M. Brice, Old Rectoru Cottage, Houghton, W Huntingdon,
• Notes / condition: 

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Budleigh Salterton is a small town on the south coast of Devon, England, 15 miles south of Exeter. It is situated within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty designated East Devon AONB.^[1]

Budleigh lies at the mouth of the River Otter, where the estuary forms an area of reed bed and grazing marsh, an important haven for migratory birds and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The town has great cafes, licensed restaurants, tea rooms, gift and clothing shops, Bed and Breakfasts, Cookery Schools mostly situated in the High Street, Fore Street and Station Road (at the High Street end). Near the town centre is a park, known as The Green. Budleigh Salterton is also home to East Devon Golf Club, and beautiful coastal walks and a large Wild Bird Sanctuary on the estuary of the River Otter.

Fairlynch Museum is a small museum housed in a listed thatched building. It covers the history and geology of the region, and offers exhibitions and a local archive.^[2]

Budleigh is on the South West Coast Path, with clifftop routes eastward to Sidmouth and westward to Exmouth. The pebble beach and cliffs are part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage site, although this is an arrangement of geographical convenience, rather than being correct from the geological time point of view. Much of the geology is Triassic, represented by bunter sandstone (Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds) and the area is also known for the radioactive nodules containing vanadium and uranium in red marl at Littleham Cove.^[3]

The birthplace of Walter Raleigh is a couple of miles to the north, at Hayes Barton, near East Budleigh and the town is the location for the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh by Sir John Everett Millais. A blue plaque affixed to The Octagon commemorates Millais' stay in the town. The novelist Henry Hawley Smart died at Laburnum Cottage, West Hill on 8 January 1893. Other notable people associated with Budleigh Salterton include Henry John Carter, broadcasters Sue Lawley and Andrew Marr, ISSF 2006 World Shooting Champion Richard Phillips, Sally McNally, puppeteer of Muffin the Mule, the poet M. R. Peacocke, actress Belinda Lee, and writer Hilary Mantel author of Wolf Hall.^[4] The actor Reg Varney died in a nursing home here in 2008. Children's book author George Mills died here in 1972 while living at Grey Friars.

type=real photographic (rp)

city/ region=budleigh salterton

period=post-war (1945-present)

publisher=photo precision

postage condition=posted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)