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The Saltings

Register rows 5713–6426

On the map

Marsh cottages at the edge of town, reached by a causeway that floods at high tide.

From Hale’s notebook

Marsh cottages at the edge of town, reached by a causeway that floods at high tide. The people of the Saltings cut reeds, dig bait and keep their own counsel. An old man mending a net there told me Porthgrey “is a town that remembers everything and says nothing”, and then said nothing more for twenty minutes.

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