Nearby is based the Clevedon Sailing Club.

Clevedon Cricket Club was established in 1874.

Clevedon Town Football Club was started in the late 19th century and were one of the founder members of the Western Football League, winning its championship in the 1990s.

Clevedon Bowling Club was formed in 1910, and since then has achieved several international honours in Bowls.

Other sporting facilities include Clevedon Golf Club who have a Par 72, 6, 500 yard course, Riding Centre, Rugby Club, and a range of other sports clubs.

The youngest person to swim the Bristol Channel from Penarth to Clevedon is Gary Carpenter who at age 17 on August Bank Holiday 2007, swam the channel in 5 hours 35 minutes making him the youngest and fastest swimmer of the Bristol Channel.

Hallam is buried at St. Andrew's Church in Clevedon, Somerset.

Clevedon is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, which covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.

Clevedon has a certain amount of light industry, mainly in industrial estates including Hither Green Trading Estate near the M5 motorway junction, and it is also a dormitory town for Bristol.

Wain's Hill is an univallate Iron Age hill fort situated approximately south-west of Clevedon.

Clevedon is situated on and round seven hills called Churchill, Wain's hill ( which is topped by the remains of an Iron Age hill fort ), Dial hill, Strawberry hill, Castle hill, Hangstone hill and Court hill which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The shore at Clevedon is a mixture of pebbled beaches and low rocky cliffs, with the old harbour being at the western edge of the town at the mouth of the Land Yeo river.

It is the side of a mineralised fault, which runs east-west adjacent to the pier, and forms a small cliff feature in Dolomitic Conglomerate on the north side of Clevedon Beach, containing cream to pink baryte together with sulfides.

The name of the walk is a commemoration of the poets and writers who have visited Clevedon.

Along with the rest of South West England, Clevedon has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country.

Clevedon has some light industry, mainly in industrial estates including Hither Green Trading Estate near the M5 motorway junction, and it is also a dormitory town for Bristol.

Walton Castle is a 17th century fort located on Castle Hill hill that overlooks the Walton St Mary area at the northern end of Clevedon.

Clevedon Court is on Court Hill east of the town centre, close to the road to Bristol.

It is one of only a few remaining 14th century manorial halls in England, having been built by Sir John de Clevedon circa 1320.

Clevedon School is a large secondary comprehensive school serving the whole town and the surrounding rural areas.

The tower of Christ Church, on Chapel Hill, is a very important landmark in Clevedon.

Literary figures associated with the town are Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( who spent some months living in a cottage in the town after his marriage to Sarah Fricker ), William Makepeace Thackeray ( a frequent guest of the Elton family at Clevedon Court ), and George Gissing ( The Odd Women is set in the town ).

In the 1993 movie, The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Christopher Reeve, references are made to Clevedon, where the final scene of the film is set and was filmed.

Clevedon is twinned with Ettlingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany since 1980 ; Épernay, France since 1990 ; and Middelkerke, Belgium since 1991.

The name Gordano comes from Old English and is descriptive of the triangular shape of the whole valley from Clevedon to Portishead, being the ablative singular of the Latinised form of Gorden meaning muddy valley.

This particular ridge runs from Clifton to Clevedon, 10 miles ( 16 km ) away on the Bristol Channel coast, although limestone is found throughout the Bristol area.

There are five religious based centres including the Romanian Seventh-day Adventist Church and convention centre, " Clevedon " camp and conference centre ( Uniting Church ), St Bernadette's Catholic Mass centre ( part of the primary school ) and Vinayagar Hindu Temple.

Clevedon, although technically a new electorate, was largely based on the old Hunua electorate, held by National's Warren Kyd.

All but one of these locomotives were based on the former Southern Railway, which became the Southern Region under British Railways, with the other based on the Western Region, having been inherited by the Great Western Railway from the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway.

In 1958, it took over The Cheddar Valley Dairy and by the early 1960s would have retail rounds, depots and shops at Burnham, Cheddar, Clevedon, Glastonbury, Nailsea, Taunton and Weston-super-Mare.

Image: Clevedon Victorian pier. jpg | Victorian pier at Clevedon, Somerset, England

In 1835 John Ashley was on the shore at Clevedon with his son who asked him how the people on Flat Holm could go to church.

Some elements of the speech put his Social Welfare spokesperson, Katherine Rich, at odds with Brash, and he fired her from the portfolio, promoting the MP for Clevedon, Judith Collins, in her place.

Clevedon was mentioned in the Domesday Book as being a holding of a tenant-in-chief by the name of Mathew of Mortaigne, and was listed at that time as having eight villagers, and ten smallholders.

He made arrangements for this to be grown in deep culture tanks at the Medical Research Council's Antibiotic Research Station in Clevedon, enabling mass production of this mould for the injections of the soldiers of World War II who suffered from infections.

Clevedon was served by a short branch line from the main railway at.

Their week-long honeymoon was spent at Clevedon, in North Somerset, and included a visit to the Cheddar Caves.

It leads westwards to Clevedon, where the motorway network can be accessed at Junction 20 of the M5 ; eastwards it links with the A370 ( for Bristol ) and the A38 ( for Bristol Airport ).

The main transmitting station, which was remotely operated, originally consisted of a large array of radio masts at nearby Portishead Downs but was replaced by a single radio mast at Clevedon.

In 1892 Sharp returned to England and on 22 August 1893 at East Clevedon, Somerset, he married Constance Dorothea Birch, also a music lover.

The son of Charles of Sarawak and his wife Margaret de Windt ( Ranee Margaret of Sarawak ), Vyner was born in London and spent his youth there, being educated at Clevedon, Winchester College, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

* Dr Leonard Curtis Luckwill ( 1914-2005 ), pioneering cider apple breeder & grower, also founded the Mendip Morris Men in the 1950s and was the Chairman of the English Folk Dance & Song Society for 1973, lived at " Mayscroft " on the Clevedon Road between 1945 & 1985.

He also created his own Ice Party, held at the Hand Stadium, home of Clevedon Town, which starred himself, Clare Buckfield, Suzanne Shaw and many world famous skaters.

He served at Milverton, Ilminster, Clevedon, Nunney and finally Frome where he performed his duties from Rodden Road police station.