Buckley Cottage - Location

Buckley Cottage from Lower Batson green	Lower Batson green from Batson Creek, Salcombe

Location of Buckley Cottage, Lower Batson, Salcombe

Lower Batson is a small, peaceful hamlet in an idyllic position at the head of a creek on the Kingsbridge Estuary.  It is just 10 minutes’ level walk "up-river" from Salcombe and surrounded by the rolling South Hams countryside (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). 

There are many delightful walks nearby - some straight from the cottage, including on land owned by the National Trust.  Half a dozen idyllic children’s beaches are effectively a short walk away.

The cottage was originally a sail-maker's cottage and had a "sail loft" upstairs with its own entrance.  It is reputedly where the infamous Judge Jeffries stayed when he sat at the Court at Batson Hall Farm in the seventeenth century.