Charles Kingsley Museum ~ Clovelly

Kingsley Museum is where you’ll meet Charles Kingsley sitting at his desk. Charles Kingsley lived in the village as a child and returned many times as an adult. He stayed at what is now known as ‘Kingsley Cottage’ where he wrote ‘Westward Ho!’. Clovelly also inspired him to write ‘The Water Babies’. One of Kingsley’s most moving poems, ‘The Three Fishers’ is a poem of fishermen's wives waiting in vain for their husbands to return during a terrible storm. It is a stark reminder of the harsh realities faced by fishing communities. Here is a link to the poem put to music and sung by Dan Britton, a local man who lost family members in the tragedy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sNZAIJ6op4