Further inland is Budleigh Salterton, so named after its Buddle, or stream, which running through the village makes its way slowly down to the sea.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
"In Yorkshire," says Mr. Buddle, "three distinct subsidences were perceptible at the surface, after the clearing out of three seams of coal below, and innumerable vertical cracks were caused in the incumbent mass of sandstone and shale which thus settled down."
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
Buddle, Mr., on creeps in coal-mines.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell