The village that never allowed a single car

Here's the Clovelly fact that makes the whole village feel like it's stepped out of another century. The cobbled main street drops so steeply down the hillside to the harbour that cars have never been allowed on it, not once, since the village was built. There simply isn't another way to move things.

Everything still gets moved the old way, by sledge, hauled up and down the slope by hand or by donkey, past whitewashed cottages that tumble almost on top of each other on the way down to the sea. It's a genuinely privately owned village too, still belonging to the same family estate that has run it for generations, which is part of why it's stayed so stubbornly unchanged.

I painted Clovelly in watercolour and ink, that steep cobbled street and whitewashed stone. There's a poster with a letter home and a postcard if you'd like one.

Shop the poster here: Clovelly, Devon · Travel Poster