Coastguards just before 6pm on Thursday near Golden Cove, Ilfracombe
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
Formal identification has yet to take place but the family of Catherine Yearsley, who has been missing from her home in Ilfracombe since Sunday 14 October, has been told.
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