sentences:  This section of the road is an important link to the national road network for the town of Dartmouth (served by the A3122) as the alternative A379 via Torbay is reliant upon the Dartmouth Higher Ferry with its associated fares and peak-time queues.As the road approaches Kingsbridge it enters the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and skirts around the edge of the town, overlapping for a short distance with the A379 road before finally turning south to Salcombe.An identically-numbered spur from this road turns back eastward to Kingsbridge.