Saltash
Saltash is a town and civil parish in eastern Cornwall, England.
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.
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Worth seeing in and around Saltash
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Home Park
Home Park is a football stadium in the area of Milehouse, Plymouth, Devon, England. With a capacity of 17,900, the ground has been the home of Plymouth Argyle Football Club since 1903, and was also used between 1900 and 1903 by Argyle Athletic club and Argyle F.C. and for athletics and rugby.
4.9 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Plymouth Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint Boniface in Plymouth, England, is the seat of the Bishop of Plymouth and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth, which covers the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. The Diocese of Plymouth was created in 1850 after the issuing of the papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae.
5.7 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Plymouth, England · Wikipedia - 03Trematon Castle
Trematon Castle is situated near Saltash in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was the caput of the feudal barony of Trematon.
2 km · a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle · Wikipedia - 04Ince Castle
Ince Castle is three miles from Saltash in Cornwall, England, UK. It is not a castle in the conventional sense, but a manor house built of brick. It was built in 1642, at the start of the English Civil War and was captured in 1646.
3.6 km · Grade I listed house in Saltash, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Tamar Bridge
The Tamar Bridge is a suspension bridge over the River Tamar between Saltash in Cornwall and Plymouth in Devon, South West England. It is 335 metres long, running adjacent to the Royal Albert Bridge and part of the A38, a main road between the two counties.
600 m · suspension bridge in southwest England · Wikipedia - 06Antony House
Antony House is an early 18th-century property in the care of the National Trust. It is located between the town of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
5.1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Scraesdon Fort
Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, the naval dockyard of Devonport from enemy naval attack. They were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south of England.
5.3 km · fort in Antony, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08City College Plymouth
City College Plymouth is a tertiary institution and further education college in South West England offering a range of technical, professional and vocational qualifications, Apprenticeships, Access to Higher Education and Foundation Degree courses, plus professional and bespoke training to local employers. The college is a partner college of the University of Plymouth, who support their Foundation Degree provision.
5 km · college in Plymouth, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of St James
The Church of St James is a Grade I listed 12th-century Anglican parish church in Antony, Cornwall, England.
5.2 km · Grade I listed church in Antony, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Crownhill Fort
Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth. Restored by the Landmark Trust, it is now home to several small businesses, museums, exhibitions and a holiday apartment sleeping up to eight people.
5.8 km · Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s in England · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Cotehele
St Dominick, near Saltash, PL12 6TA, cotehele@nationaltrust.org.uk.
- 02Royal Albert Bridge
From Wikivoyage: Saltash, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Saltash
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 126 km · Bristol (BRS), 151 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 218 km
- Stations
- Plymouth railway station, 5.9 km · Bere Ferrers railway station, 5.3 km · Saltash railway station, 200 m · Keyham railway station, 3 km · Dockyard railway station, 3.8 km
- Cardiff → Saltash140 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · £22–30
- Bristol → Saltash163 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £18–24
- London → Saltash312 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · £32–42
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Saltash
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Saltash. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are coming in by car but don't want to face the parking problems of the city-centre, there are also three main Park & Ride sites serving the city: (east near Plympton), (north) and (city centre) {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata 2023-12-31 | content=Brittany Ferries operates services to Plymouth from Santander (22 hours) and Roscoff (6 hours during the day, 8 hours during the night).
- Get inThe Ferry Terminal is to the west of the City Centre at the Millbay Docks, about (800 m) a mile walk from the Hoe and Central shopping precinct.
- Get aroundOne of the most 'local' ways to get around is by water taxi or boat.
- Get aroundThe two most popular services amongst locals are probably the Barbican-Mountbatten line and the Cremyll Ferry from Admiral's Hard to Mount Edgecumbe.
- Get aroundThese can be relatively busy during the evenings and at rush hour; the Cremyll Ferry in particular can be quite full of school children at around 4pm during term time.
From Wikivoyage: Plymouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Saltash
- Torpointtown on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Antonyvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK5.1 km
- St Johnvillage and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom5.5 km
- Botus Flemingvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3.5 km
- Landulphhamlet and a rural civil parish in south-east Cornwall, UK2.7 km
- Trematonvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.6 km