Clatworthy is a village and civil parish in the West Somerset District of Somerset, England. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) from Wellington and the same distance from Wiveliscombe on the southern slopes of the Brendon Hills.
The name of the village means the "homestead where burdock grows".
Just west of the village, at the edge of Exmoor National Park, is the Clatworthy Reservoir, which impounds the headwaters of River Tone and supplies water to some 200,000 homes and businesses, some as far away as Yeovil. An iron age enclosure known as Clatworthy Castle wassited on the wooded slopes above the reservoir and there are round barrows in the north of the parish.
The parish Church of St Mary Magdalene has a 12th century tower. The nave was rebuilt in 1872, while the chancel was rebuilt and the tower altered between 1860 and 1883.
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