CLOVELLY, a fishing village of Barnstaple bay, Devonshire, England, i Im. W.S.W. of Bideford. Pop. (1921) 634. It is a cluster of old-fashioned cottages in a unique position on the sides of a rocky cleft in the north coast ; its main street resembles a staircase, which descends 400f t. to the pier, too steeply to allow of any wheeled traffic. All Saints' church, restored in 1866, is late Norman. The climate is very mild. Thick woods shelter the village on three sides and the surrounding scenery is famous for its richness of colour. Clovelly is described by Dickens in A Mes sage from the Sea.