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Page 1 of 1 Salcombe CastleWikipedia is sustained by people like you. Please donate today. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Salcombe Castle or Fort Charles is a ruined fortification just off the beach of North Sands in Salcombe, Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is located on a rocky outcrop which is easily reached on foot at low tide. The castle is thought to have been constructed originally during the reign of Henry VIII, to defend the Kingsbridge estuary against French and Spanish pirates. It was the last place to hold out in the Royal cause against the victorious Parliamentarian troops of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. Sir Edmund Fortescue was ordered to hold it in 1643, when nearby Plymouth rose against the king; he rebuilt the castle at a cost of £135 6s 11d, and gave it the name "Fort Charles". The castle was besieged from January to May 1646, and surrendered then only because it became clear that all other royalist strongholds had been overrun; the garrison Salcombe Castle from North Sands were allowed to withdraw with their colours flying. After the Civil War the castle was "slighted" (ruined) on the orders of Parliament as it was "too dangerous" to allow it to remain. The Sealed Knot staged a reenactment of the siege in 1996 to commemorate its 350th anniversary. 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 Gallery Ruins taken from North Taken from a boat in Information board Sands the estuary about the castle at North Sands Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salcombe_Castle" Categories: Device Forts in Devon | English Civil War | England castle stubs | Devon geography stubs This page was last modified 10:46, 18 September 2007. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity. .

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