Clatworthy, a village 4 m.  N.W. from Wiveliscombe.  The church is a small Dec. building, of no particular interest, though it contains an ancient font.  About a mile away is an encampment.

Claverton (said to be a corruption of Clatfordton; cp.  Clatworthy) is a parish 3 m.  E.S.E. of Bath, situated near the Avon in very picturesque surroundings.  In 1643 it had its peace rudely disturbed by an engagement between the Parliament forces (under Sir W. Waller) and the Royalists.  The parish church, which has a squat tower surmounted by a gable, contains within the chancel rails the coloured effigies of Sir W. Bassett and his wife, whilst in the churchyard is buried Ralph Allen, the friend of Fielding and Pope.  His tomb is under an ugly canopy, supported on arches.  Above the village, to the N.W., is Hampton Down, where there is a large British encampment.

Cleeve, a parish 2 m.  E. from Yatton, on the Bristol and Bridgwater road, with a modern church.  Near it is Goblin Combe (take the road that leaves the highway near the “Lord Nelson” inn, and when past a schoolhouse enter through a gate).  It is a long cleft in the mountain limestone, wild and solitary, and covered with tangled vegetation.  The whole neighbourhood round is picturesque.

[Illustration:  ENTRANCE TO CLEEVE ABBEY]

Cleeve Abbey, the ruins of a Cistercian monastery, 1/2 m.  S. from Washford Station (G.W.R. branch to Minehead).  Leave the station by the Taunton road, and take first turning to R. It is only recently that these interesting remains have been rescued from the farmer and made accessible to the public.  The abbey was founded in 1188.  With the proverbial monkish eye for a fine situation and a trout stream, its builders set it in a fertile valley, to which old chroniclers gave the name of the Flowery Vale.  Contrary to the usual fate of such ruins, the domestic portions of the monastery have survived; the church has gone.  Entrance is gained through a gatehouse standing well apart from the main block of buildings.  It is generally believed to have been a kind of combined guest-house and porter’s lodge, where the casual visitor found temporary entertainment.  Over its hospitable doorway is graven the salutation “Patens porta esto, nulli claudaris honesto” (This gate shall ever open be To all who enter honestly).  The floor which divided the upper chamber from the passage below has disappeared.  Note on the front face (1) Perp. window; (2) empty niche; (3) niched figure of Virgin and Child; and on the back (1) name of the last abbot, Dovell; (2) crucifix flanked by two empty niches.  Crossing a rough field, the visitor enters the monastery proper by a doorway pierced in the cloister wall. (Admission 1s. for one, 6d. for each additional person.) The entrance opens at once into the quadrangle.  Immediately on the L. are the W. cloisters (Perp.), once surmounted by the sleeping apartments of the lay brothers.