Visit the world famous Clovelly village and enjoy the striking North Devon coastline on the Hartland Peninsula. Visit Arrive early, the visitor centre and village opens at 10am. Clovelly Put the postcode in the sat nav and you’ll end up in the right place: EX39 5TL. It feels like you are driving forever down the roads but you’ll end up in the right place. As you arrive at the visitor centre park in the right hand carpark if you have a motorhome or large vehicle rather than the one in front of the visitor centre. There's usually a member of staff to direct you. Clovelly Village is such a beautiful, peaceful and quaint working fishing village, although there is a £7.95 entrance fee per adult I feel it’s worth it. A few people have rated the village on Tripadvisor and other places low because of the entrance fee but if you are happy to pay you won’t be disappointed. It is a working village, although it’s a visitor attraction people live and work there. I guess the entrance fee puts the wrong type of people off? Once you are through the visitor centre there are a few small craft shops to browse and sometimes you’ll see the donkeys. Start walking down the steep cobbled street which meanders down to the port, there’s a museum along the way, a few shops, cafes, 2 chapels and a hotel and bar at the bottom. I lost several hours wandering around, it was a really wet and dismal day but the village still looked really pretty. Somehow I felt like I had been thrown back in time, I just loved this place. The port was once a busy fishing port famous for its herring and mackerel fishing, now it’s still a fishing port but more famous for lobster and crab fishing. If you are lucky you’ll see the lobster pots stacked up on the quayside. Clovelly is such a unique place and has been the setting for many films and television programmes over the years. A more recent film, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society had parts filmed in the village. On the Hartland Peninsula you are spoilt for choice of things to visit and see. From the Hartland Quay car park there’s a stunning walk along the South West Coast Path to Speke's Mill Mouth Waterfall. You can only access the waterfall by foot, the coastal path takes you over several fields as well as the cliff tops. The scenery is breathtaking, it is well worth the walk although it’s unsuitable for pushchairs and wheelchair users. It’s just under a mile to walk to the waterfall. Parking: There is plenty of parking for vehicles of all sizes - the views are incredible. Stay the night at Penhalt Farm, Widemouth Bay

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Hartland Quay is a small harbour with a pebble beach with areas of rock and sand at low tide. Hartland Quay is well worth a visit for the excellent scenery and there is good walking north to Hartland Point. There is a small car park at the harbour…