Salcombe Road

Named we must assume like so many Plymouth streets after a Devon town or village. Salcombe itself actually means salt-valley and the name was recorded in a document dated 1244 as Saltecumbe.

Coincidentally perhaps, it is not altogether unreasonable to suggest that Lipson Valley, which Salcombe Road overlooks, may once have been used for salt panning. Plymouth after all has one or two other salt related names in its vicinity - Saltash, the ash tree by the salt works, and Saltram, and Little Saltram being the obvious examples. Before the land infilling of the last few centuries numerous tidal creeks that lent themselves well to the practice surrounded Plymouth.