Description
Budleigh-Salterton, a village in East Budleigh parish, Devonshire, on the coast, immediately west of the mouth of the Otter, 2 1/2 miles S of East Budleigh, and 5 from Exmouth railway station, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.) Area of the urban sanitary district, 783 acres; population, 1770. It was formerly an obscure fishing hamlet, and is now a fashionable watering-place, with hotels and many respectable lodging-houses. It occupies a dell running obliquely to the shore, looks warm and luxuriant, and commands rich means of comfort and recreation. Coleridge says of the Otter in its neighbourhood,
"Mine eyes I never shut amid the sunny ray,
But straight with all their tints thy waters rise;
Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows gray,
And bedded sand that, veined with various dyes,
Gleamed through thy bright transparence."
But straight with all their tints thy waters rise;
Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows gray,
And bedded sand that, veined with various dyes,
Gleamed through thy bright transparence."
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
