The precipitous, car-free, cobbled village street at Clovelly on the north Devon coast must be one of the most familiar picturesque scenes in Britain. Of course, the village’s thousands of visitors ...

They’ve been a staple of Clovelly, and donkeys are part and parcel of life. “If you look back at pictures of Clovelly in the 1800s, you always see a donkey carrying fish or goods up the hill.