Saltram

The name 'Saltram' dates back to at least 1263 and fourteen years before that we find reference to the fuller title 'Salterham'.

This name suggests that whatever buildings there were here, one of them was occupied by salt workers. Saltworks were recorded at Bere Ferrers and, across the water from Saltash, at Tamerton in the Domesday Survey; even closer, for Plymouth - and Saltram - was the saltworks, recorded at the same time, at Eggbuckland (tidal waters used to reach along the Parkway to within 400 yards or so of Eggbuckland Church). Perhaps some of those saltworkers lived across the Plym at Saltram. There was also a Little Saltram, a farm which stood where Salisbury Road School now stands.

Coincidentally perhaps, the main route to Saltash used to pass through what is now part of the grounds of Saltram across the Ebb Ford (Efford) of the Plym up the road behind Crabtree and it was known, even in recent years, as Saltash Lane.