Saltash

Saltash, a picturesque ancient municipal borough and seaport of Cornwall, on the west side of the estuary of the Tamar, and 4½ miles NW. of Plymouth by a railway that crosses the Tamar by Brunel's iron Royal Albert Viaduct (1857–59), 2240 feet long and 240 high (the roadway 102 feet above high-water mark), constructed at a cost of £230,000. The church of St Nicholas dates from 1225. The town, which was frequently taken and retaken during the great Civil War, was disfranchised in 1832. Pop. (1851) 1621; (1891) 2541.