CLEVEDON, a parish in the hundred of PORTBURY, county of SOMERSET, 14 miles (W. by S.) from Bristol, containing 581 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 15.14.4., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bristol. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, stands at the western extremity of the parish, and occupies a high and prominent situation on the shore of the Bristol channel: .it is a cruciform structure, with a central tower. On the top of some of the hills are the remains of lead mines; and lapis calaminaris has also been found here. The old manor-house, a spacious building principally in the Elizabethan style, occupies a pleasant situation on the southern slope of the mountainous range that bounds the greater portion of the hundred. The Yeo flows through the village, and thence into the Bristol channel, a little southward from the church: several houses have been recently erected near the shore, for the reception of bathers; and a pier is also about to be constructed. As a watering-place, Clevedon is inferior to its rival neighbour, Weston, on account of the fine sandy beach of the latter, but greatly superior in the beauty of its scenery: myrtles and other delicate shrubs flourish in -the gardens at all seasons. In 1650, Thomas Gwilliam, or Phillips, gave six acres of land, producing £11 per annum, for apprenticing poor children; and in 1727, Sir A. Elton bequeathed £5 per annum, for the instruction of children.