Clevedon, a pleasant Somersetshire watering-place, on the Bristol Channel, 12 miles by road but 16 by rail WSW. of Bristol. The historian Hallam, and Arthur, his son, lie in the old parish church; Coleridge lived a while here at Myrtle Cottage (1795); and Clevedon Court (much damaged by fire in 1882) is the 'Castlewood' of Thackeray's Esmond. Pop. of parish (1851) 1905; (1891) 5412.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 292
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