East Portlemouth is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England, situated at the southern end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, on the south Devon Coast.

[1] The village is sited on a hill giving views to the north to Kingsbridge and on a clear day as far as Dartmoor.

There is a small ferry that runs to Salcombe in the opposite side of the estuary, and a beach that is popular with holidaymakers.

This is thought to derive from the Old English Portwellan-mutha, meaning 'mouth of the port well', that is to say 'mouth of the harbour stream', the village being at the mouth of a river.

[2] The village is popular with celebrities as a second-home base, where home owners include Steve Rider, Kate Bush and Michael Parkinson.