Sidford

Sidford is a small village in the civil parish of and on the outskirts of the town of Sidmouth in the English county of Devon. It has a population of just over 2100 people according to the 2001 Census.

Sidford
Sidford
Location within Devon
OS grid referenceSY135902
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSIDMOUTH
Postcode districtEX10
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

It is on the River Sid, which runs for four miles into Lyme Bay at Sidmouth. There is a 12th-century packhorse bridge over the river that was the site of a 1644 skirmish in the English Civil War.[1]

In the village centre there is a small Spar supermarket with a post office, a fish and chip shop, Bloaters. There is also a hairdresser, a sports injury clinic, a pub called the Rising Sun and a veterinary surgery.

Sidford's most famous pub is the Blue Ball Inn, a 14th-century lodging house that burned to the ground in 2007 and is now rebuilt.[2]

Media related to Sidford at Wikimedia Commons

References
  1. Joanna Billing (January 2003). The Hidden Places of Devon. Travel Publishing Ltd. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-1-902007-89-2.
  2. "Sidford’s two pubs suffer chimney fires" Sidmouth Herald. 28 January 2011
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