She was the sister of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet.
Giving this up some ten years later, she lived for a time with the widow of her brother Arthur Hugh Clough - who had died in 1861 - in order that she might educate his children.
The Clough Brook becomes a raging torrent in stormy weather.
About 800 meters from the dam the waterworks road bridges Black Clough, at which point the reservoir bends round to the left.
In addition to th e se residents or natives of the locality, Shelley, Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clough, Crabb Robinson, Carlyle, Keats, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Mrs Hemans, Gerald Massey and others of less reputation made longer or shorter visits, or were bound by ties of friendship with the poets already mentioned.