Salcombe Castle

[1][2] The ruined structure includes a four-story 7 metres (23 ft) semicircular tower with gun ports near the top.

It was built on a rocky promontory with no easy access, so a causeway stretching around the coast from Salcombe village had first to be constructed, of which signs still remain where they had to cut through various rocks, some still clearly visible, especially where it passes the little Woodcot Folly castle.

In March heavier guns were brought up from Plymouth under the command of Col. Weldon, by then its Parliamentary Governor, which was ambushed briefly at Pin End, the eastern end of the causeway across the River Avon from  Aveton Giffard, by the Royalist Vicar William Lane.

With no hope of relief and with supplies running low, on 7 May the Royalist garrison finally surrendered Fort Charles.

4 ft, 3 Stone, mounted on carriages, identified as former ship’s guns, and presumed to have been recovered from nearby shipwrecks.