Budleigh Past and Present

'Bicton', at the west end of Clyst Hayes Gardens Having featured some properties in Budleigh Salterton's sister-town of Brewster recently I thought it was only right to give my US readers a glimpse of our own real estate. In fact they can choose between five newly-arrived homes on the market since realtors Jackson-Stops & Staff unveiled at last Saturday's Open Day what they call "an exceptional development" in "a unique setting overlooking a County Wildlife Site." Readers of my Exmouth Roadies blog will know that the plot I'm referring to is what used to be the garden of Clyst Hayes House, which I wrote about at http://exmouthroadies.blogspot.com/2009/01/district-council-decides-to-bring-house.html Perhaps not as grand as the original Clyst Hayes House, but the new houses are spacious enough by modern standards Like many Budleigh residents I followed closely the progress of this development and was even moved to write a poem about it when poo...