CLEVEDON  , a watering-

place in the northern parliamentary division of Somersetshire, England, on the Bristol Channel, 151 m . W. of Bristol on a branch of the Great Western railway . Pop, of urban district Nor) 5900 . The cruciform church of St Andrew has Norman and later portions; it is the burial-place of Henry Hallam the historian, and members of his family, including his sons Arthur and Henry . Clevedon Court is a remarkable medieval mansion, dating originally from the early part of the 14th century, though much altered in the Elizabethan and other periods . The house is considered to be the originalof " Castlewood " in Thackeray's Esmond; the novelist was acquainted with the place through his friendship with the Rev . William Brookfield and his wife, the daughter of Sir Charles Elton of Clevedon Court .