Saltash Passage

For some 600 years there was a ferry link from Saltash Passage to Saltash and until this century Saltash Passage itself was officially part of Cornwall. The Brunel Bridge marks the line of the old crossing.

As the Railway Bridge was begun so the crossing point on the eastern bank of the Tamar moved down to a spot in front of the Ferry House Inn. Originally the ferry itself was known as the Ashe-Torre Passage. With the construction of the Tamar Road Bridge at the beginning of the 1960s so the ferry service became redundant and on 23 October 1961 the ferry made its last ever crossing.

Now, although it provides the most used crossing into Cornwall that there has ever been, the new bridge bypasses that area known as Saltash Passage.