MALBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of STANBOROUGH,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (S.W. by S.) from
Kingsbridge, containing, with the chapelry of Salcombe,
1552 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
with the vicarage of West Allington, in the archdeaconry
of Totnes, and diocese of Exeter. The church,
which has a spire ninety feet high, stands on a commanding
eminence near Bolt-head, on the English
channel. Here is an endowed school for eight children,.
There are.slight remains ofllton castle, erected about
1336; also of another, called Fort Charles, repaired by
Charles I., at an expense of £ 3000; during the civil war,
it was captured by the forces of the parliament in 1645.
Lord Viscount Courtenay holds a court of Admiralty
here for an extensive line of coast. In some parts of
the parish lemons, oranges, citrons, and olives, flourish
in the open air, having only temporary protection in
very severe weather. A plant of the Mediterranean
aloe having here attained the height of twenty-seven
feet, blossomed before it was quite twenty years old, and
then withered away, leaving numerous suckers at its
root.