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Clovelly has four small shopping precincts all on or near
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precinct including coffee shops, eateries, a general store & bottle shop. At the corner of
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Mundarrah Towers. Mundarrah Towers was built for
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Clovelly tram line began at Alison Road to the intersection of Clovelly and Carrington Roads in 1912, then extending to Clovelly in 1913 helping to popularise the area. This line branched from
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Clovelly, the name of a local estate owned by Sir John Robertson, which was named after the village of
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