If you want to be spoilt by the good life in an unspoilt coastal hotspot this is the pebbly beach for you. Unspoilt is the word that crops up again and again when you ask the residents of Budleigh Salterton why they like living there. The genteel town in south Devon has long had a reputation as being a retirement resort, but look again. There may not be a train station, but that hasn’t stopped an influx of younger families moving in. It means you are as likely to see paddleboarders out on a summer’s evening, making the most of Budleigh’s low tidal range, as a regiment of whiskery colonels.
Private homes line up along the seafront with not one hotel in evidence — highly