Ten years on, Budleigh gets an 'honourable mention'
On the South West Coast Path, just a few miles west of Budleigh Salterton Ten or so years after being described as " the last retreat of Britain 's chronologically challenged" and a "grey icon" noted for becoming less and less tourist-friendly, Budleigh Salterton has been ranked with Bath in a survey of best places to visit in the South West of England. Travel writer Simon Heptinstall, who was brought up in the nearby village of Woodbury, succeeded in ruffling a few feathers when in a Telegraph article still online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/722544/South-Devon-The-home-of-winceyette-jimjams.html he described in Budleigh a town that takes pleasure in not inviting you, and which, after dark "slips into an Ovaltine-induced coma" having successfully repelled the tourist invasion. But in a recent article based on his independent selection of the ten best days out in England's South West - including Wiltshire, Dorset, Somers...