[4] Salcott's fortunes dived in the early 1500s and it is believed many of the village fishermen turned to smuggling to scrape a living.

The communities have been connected by a wooden bridge across Salcott Creek for many years, and there was rivalry between the two.

Folklore says that one side called the other "yellow bellies" over a particular incident, the detail of which has been lost in time.

In 1977 the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II was marked by a tug of war across the creek.

The church is now a ruin that stands on private ground but the flavour of its services is recorded in Chapter 23, "Before the Altar" in the book Mehalah, a Story of the Salt Marshes,[6] by Sabine Baring-Gould.