Sidbury

Sidbury

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name = Sidbury
latitude = 50.71981
longitude = -3.2207
population = 14,400
shire_county = Devon
shire_district = East Devon
region = South West England
post_town = SIDMOUTH
postcode_district =EX10
postcode_area = EX
dial_code =
constituency_westminster= East Devon
os_grid_reference= SY140918

Sidbury is a village north of Sidmouth on the A375 road in East Devon.

It is situated on the River Sid, which rises at Ottery St Mary and runs for convert|4|mi|km|0 to Lyme Bay at Sidmouth. There is a working watermill in the village.
It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as the manor of Sideberia, held by Bishop Osbern of Exeter.
The Church of St Peter and St Giles has a Norman tower topped with a spire, a Saxon Crypt, a gunpowder storage room dating from the Napoleonic era and a 500-year-old font.

Above the village is Sidbury Castle, the site of an Iron Age Hill fort. ["Sidmouth, A History". Sidmouth, Devon:Sidmouth Museum, 1987 page 16 ISBN 0-9512704-0-0]

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