Clovelly, a coast village of North Devon, 11 miles WSW. of Bideford. From its rude little pier it climbs 400 feet upwards in a steep narrow combe, white house rising over white house, and all nestling in flowers and greenery. Dickens describes it in A Message from the Sea. Pop. of parish, 787.
Clovelly
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 302
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