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After passing Gerston Point there is a creek which leads 

 to Collapit. Besides the farm-house, there is a bridge of 

 the same name in the road to Salcombe. Then comes 

 Rowden Point, and a creek runs thence to Blanks' or Alston 

 Mill, also headed by a bridge. On the left side of the 

 estuary there is a piece of land now used by the Volunteers 

 as a " rifle range," which is usually denominated " Charleton 

 Marshes." In 1805 Earl Morley here formed an embank- 

 ment, by which between thirty and forty acres were re- 

 claimed from the tide, and in a couple of years this land 

 began to vegetate. 



You now enter an extensive breadth of water, called 

 Wide-gates, where, in a high wind, it is occasionally a 

 little hazardous to small boats; for instances have occurred 

 now and then of a capsize. 



Upon the high land overlooking the little port of Sal- 

 combe, and about four miles from Kingsbridge, stands " All 

 Saints'," the church of the parish of Malborough, one of 

 the four included in the West Alvington Vicarage, and (as 

 elsewhere stated) this church has undergone a thorough 

 restoration, through the exertions of the Vicar, the Ven. 

 Archdeacon Earle. Decayed as many parts of the building 

 were, the masonry is remarkably substantial; so far, there- 

 fore, as the walls were concerned, little was required to be 

 done; but new roofs have been constructed, the windows 

 re-filled with stone mullions and tracery, the pews cleared 

 away and replaced by open benches, and the tower-arch 

 thrown open, by the removal of the gallery, so that the 

 bells are now rung from the ground. Of these bells, Pol- 

 whele says "they are much esteemed by those who like 

 such ding-dong sounds." The building is chiefly of the 

 Late Perpendicular period ; but the tower and chancel 



