Sidmouth
| Sidmouth | |||
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 looking towards Salcombe Hill |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 41 ′ N , 3 ° 14 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 14,400 | ||
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| ZIP code section | EX10 | ||
| prefix | 1395 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South West England | ||
| Shire county | Devon | ||
| District | East Devon | ||
| Website: www.sidmouth.gov.uk | |||
Sidmouth is a village in the county of Devon , on the English Channel coast in south-west England . In 2001 Sidmouth had a population of 14,400. It belongs to the East Devon District .
location
Sidmouth is approximately 14 miles east of the city of Exeter , 14 kilometers south of Honiton and 16 kilometers northeast of Exmouth .
Sidmouth is at the mouth of the small River Sid. It flows about 10 kilometers from Crowpits Covert through Sidbury and Sidford to the mouth of the English Channel.
history
According to the Domesday Book (1086) the village was named Sedemuda . Like many places on the south coast, it was a small fishing village.
Jurassic Coast
The coast and cliffs of East Devon and Dorset on the English Channel are some of the natural wonders of the world. From Orcombe Point , in the west, to Old Harry Rocks , east of Studland Bay , there is a 155-kilometer stretch of coastline, which was the first natural landscape in England to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .
Sidmouth is a gateway town and the pebble beach is part of the so-called Jurassic Coast .
geology
The natural revelations along the coast at Sidmouth reveal a continuous sequence of the geological structures formed in the Triassic , Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and present around 185 million years of geological history. The stone layers along the south coast tilted slightly to the east. That is why the oldest part of the coast is found in the western area, progressively younger rocks form the cliffs further east.
There are five dominant stone layers in this section.
Sons and daughters of the church
- William Stevenson Hoyte (1844–1917), organist, composer and music teacher
Web links
- Sidmouth Town Council , official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Dorset and East Devon Coast . UNESCO World Heritage Center. 2001. Retrieved October 19, 2010.