It's Slapton, in south Devon. At the far end of that road is a WW2 Sherman tank which is a war memorial to hundreds of U.S. soldiers who died on this coast. The whole area was taken over in WW2 by the U.S. army - all the villages evacuated. They used the beaches to practice for the D Day landings. One night several German E-boats got among them and sank a lot of the landing craft and killed hundreds of men. This was kept secret until the seventies, when a local man discovered the wreckage while diving. The Sherman tank was hauled out of the sea after much wrangling with U.S. military authorities. He had to actually buy it, but for a nominal sum when he explained about having it as a memorial to the lost men. Apparently the tracks still went round when they hauled it out! (now that's what I call chain lube
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There are always a few wreaths on the tank, and of course it is visited by WW2 veterans who were here in the war.
The trees around the fresh water lagoon still have so much shrapnel in them that chainsaws can't be used!
It's a great road for a ride, well known by bikers. A long and very curvy road from Dartmouth. The hill down from where I took the photo has some good hairpins, then a three mile thrash with a couple of light curves, followed by a winding route through villages and along the estuary to Kingsbridge.
Good long walks along the beach too, never crowded if you get away from the carparks.