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Extract from the Clovelly Travel Guides:
The steep cobbled lanes and whitewashed cottages of
CLOVELLY
must have featured on more calendars, biscuit boxes and tourist posters than anywhere else in the West Country. It was put on the map in the second half of the nineteenth century by two books: Charles Dickens'
A Message From the Sea
and, inevitably,
Westward Ho!
- Charles Kingsley's father was rector here for six years. To an extent, the tone of the village has been preserved by limiting hotel accommodation and holiday homes, and restricting coach parties, though there's still a regular stream of visitors and on summer days it's impossib... read the whole Clovelly Travel Guides...
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