 Arms of Sidmouth Town Council Sidmouth is a small town of 14,400 on the east Devon coast in south west England about 15 miles south east of Exeter. It is surrounded by the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is on the Jurassic Coast world heritage site and the South West coast path, a long distance footpath that skirts almost all of the coast in the West Country of England. The principal income of the town is from tourism. Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Sidmouth Categories: GFDL images | GBdot ...
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Sidmouth in Devon, England. ...
Sidmouth in Devon, England. ...
Arms of Sidmouth Town Council. ...
Arms of Sidmouth Town Council. ...
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The South West Coast Path passes along the cliffs (seen in the distance) at Ilfracombe, North Devon. ...
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Sidmouth holds an annual folk festival in early August attracting musicians and tourists from around the world. As of 2005 all commercial sponsors have pulled out of the festival. To save the festival and keep tourism strong, many shop owners in Sidmouth organised the festival themselves. This resulted in a much smaller scale event than previous years and offered no international entertainment. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the common people. ...
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The town is also popular as a retirement community, with about 60% of the population being over retirement age.
Sidmouth has many independent retailers, including a surprisingly big department store. There are several pubs, restaurants, coffee houses and tea rooms. The town also boasts an indoor swimming pool, a college, sports hall, cinema, and golf course. Of particular note is the museum. A very carefully selected accumulation of local memorabilia, artefacts, and geological samples provides a comprehensive and fascinating picture of the area's geology and history.
A wide esplanade has been a seafront feature since Regency times. A series of south westerly storms in the 1980's washed away much of the shingle beach protecting the masonry. A series of artificial rock islands were constructed to protect the sea front and tonnes of pebbles were trucked in to replace the beach.
Erosion remains a serious issue to the east of the mouth of the River Sid. The cliffs have been heavily eroded, threatening cliff top homes and the coastal footpath.
Sidmouth won the Coastal Resort award in the 2005 Britain in Bloom awards. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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History
Once a relatively small fishing village and failed port, Sidmouth became a fashionable resort for the gentry in the early 19th century. The town's numerous fine Georgian and Regency villas and mansions are now mostly hotels. The Lockyer Observatory and Planetarium, completed in 1912, fell into disuse and ruin but was saved from demolition by the appeals of local enthusiasts to East Devon District Council. The observatory now operates as a science education project and is regularly open to the public. The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV of the United Kingdom was still Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style. ...
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A planetarium is a theater built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. ...
In 1819 George III's son Edward, Duke of Kent, his wife and baby daughter, came to stay at Wolbrook Glen for a few weeks. Within less that a month he had died of pneumonia. His daughter was the future Queen Victoria. The house later became the Royal Glen Hotel, and a plaque on an exterior wall records the visit. George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ...
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At one time Sidmouth was connected to the railway network by a branch line, but this was dismantled under the Beeching Axe in the 1960s. See: Sidmouth railway station. Many railway lines were closed as a result of the Beeching Axe The Beeching Axe was an informal name for the British governments attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be little-used and unprofitable...
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