Saltash Corporation, Ferry Service

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  • Transport services Ferry services, rivers & harbours

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The ferry service across the River Tamar had ancient origins. Reckoned to be the most important ferry service in the West Country, linking Devon and Cornwall. Owned and operated by Saltash Corporation with a brief interval in the 1830s when the ferry rights were sold to a group of local entrepreneurs who established a 'steam powered floating bridge'. Closed 1961

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