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CLOVELLY
, a fishing See also:village in the See also:Barnstaple See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Devonshire, See also:England, i1 m
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W.S.W. of See also:Bideford
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(1901) 621
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It is a cluster of old-fashioned 'cottages in a unique position on the sides of a rocky cleft in the See also:north See also:coast; its See also:main See also:street resembles a See also:staircase which descends 400 ft. to the See also:pier, too steeply to allow of any wheeled See also:traffic
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Thick See also:woods shelter it on three sides, and render the See also:climate so mild that fuchsias and other delicate See also:plants flourish in midwinter
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