BRATTON-CLOVELLY, a parish in the hundred
of LIFTON, county of DEVON, 8 miles (W. S. W.) from
Oakhampton, containing 705 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £21. 5. 2.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter. On an
eminence about three miles northward is Broadbury
Castle, an ancient earthwork defended by a single
vallum and fosse.