Sidmouth Devon CAM

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Welcome Seat Place: Sidmouth Category: Beaches Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: To get to Jacobs Ladder beach at Sidmouth you can either use the wooden steps or the slope and steps so the access is fairly easy. On the way back up there are seats for those who want to take a break or indeed just stop and admire the view. Photograph Added: 26th August 2010

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Shady Seating Area Place: Sidmouth Category: Gardens Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The Connaught gardens at Sidmouth were named after His Grace, The Duke of Connaught who was Queen Victoria’s third son. He formally opened the Gardens on 3rd November 1934 at the age of 84 and a plaque marking this grand opening is still clearly vis...... Photograph Added: 26th August 2010

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Looking back Towards Jacobs Ladder Place: Sidmouth Category: Beaches Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The steps of Jacobs Ladder are white which is a lovely contrast with the red cliffs at Sidmouth. When the tide is out there is a vast expanse of sand exposed on this beach. Photograph Added: 10th August 2010

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Sidmouth Seafront Place: Sidmouth Category: Beaches Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: Sidmouth is a very popular seafront and lots of people walk along the promenade rather than the beach which is very pebbly in places. The red cliffs of Devon stand out in any photograph and are a good contrast to this overcast sky. Photograph Added: 10th August 2010

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The Fiddler Place: Sidmouth Category: Public Art Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The Fiddler was Commissioned by Rev. Canon Dvid Slater to celebrate fifty years of Sidmouth International Folk Festival. It was unveiled by Martin Carthy MBE In August 1st 2004. Photograph Added: 10th August 2010

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About Sidmouth Devon.

Today Sidmouth still has a unique charm, which attracts thousands of tourists every year The town has beautiful gardens, plenty of fascinating walks, fine hotels, clean beaches and interesting shops and because Sidmouth lies beneath the majestic red cliffs and the green hills of the glorious Sid valley, it is not only picturesque but also enjoys a very mild climate.
The River Sid is one of Englands shortest rivers rising to the east of Ottery St. Mary and flowing through the valley for just four miles before flowing into the sea at Sidmouth
Sidmouths popularity as a seaside resort took off in the late 18th and early 19th century when the leisure classes could not holiday on the continent because of Napoleons conquest of Europe. The opportunity to indulge in the new fashion of bathing in the sea and the relatively easy route from London to Sidmouth transformed a run down fishing village into a boom town for upper class visitors. By the 19th century Sidmouth had become one if the most select seaside resorts in Europe with a grand Esplanade. And today the elegant Regency style of seaside architecture is known as cottage orne the buildings were mostly cream and white, there was also a mass of wrought iron balconies with wooden balconies made to look like wrought iron and entertainingly shaped windows. Many of these cottages have now been converted into impressive hotels.
In 1801 Jane Austen holidayed in Sidmouth and is reported to have fallen in love with a clergyman. In the 1830s William Makepeace Thackeray was also a visitor and he renamed the town Baymouth in his semi- autobiographical work Pendennis. Beatrix Potter was also a visitor on a few occasions but the town is most renowned as the residence of the Duke of Kent who in 1819 lived in what is now the Royal Grand Hotel. He came to Sidmouth to escape his creditors and had his mail directed to Salisbury but he took great pleasure in showing off his young daughter Victoria and so it is at Sidmouth that Queen Victoria got her first sight of the sea. Fifty years later the Queen presented and dedicated a stained glass window to Sidmouth parish church in memory of her father.
A week-long annual folk festival, is held at Sidmouth in early August with concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, top bands, Morris dancers, folk singers and even clog dancers from all over the world.