still be found under the brambles there. 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. They were then mounted in what is now the Italian garden in The Moult garden, where a special track had to be dug and built (still in existence) straight down Moult Hill and down what is now the top Moult drive to take them. It had proved impossible to get them and their carriages and horses around the corners of the old winding track. With no hope of relief and with supplies running low, on 7th May the Royalist garrison finally surrendered Fort Charles. Although the castle was slighted after its surrender, it still remained in operation as a gun battery until at least 1717, (“Survey of Plymouth and District 1717 in the British Library) at which time it was mounting five guns on gun carriages (two of which were unusable), 1 X 5 1/4 lb. 6ft 10 stone; 1 X 5 1/4 lb. 6ft. 11 stone; 1 x 5 1/4lb. 6ft. 6ins, 11 stone; 1x4lb X 6ft. 13 stone and 1 X 3lb. 4ft, 3 Stone, mounted on carriages, identified as former ship’s guns, and presumed to have been recovered from nearby shipwrecks. Gallery References Some information derived from the commemorative plaque at North Sands erected by English Heritage, the Salcombe Castle Preservation group, the Sealed Knot and the South Hams District Council Device Forts Forts in Devon English Civil War Grade II listed buildings in Devon Scheduled monuments in Devon Salcombe