Sidmouth

With a view to Salcombe Hill

Sidmouth is a village in the county of Devon, on the English Channel coast in the south west of England. In 2001, Sidmouth had 14400 inhabitants. It is part of the East Devon District.

Location

Sidmouth lies around 23 kilometers east of the city of Exeter, 14 kilometers south of Honiton and 16 kilometers north-east of Exmouth.

Sidmouth lies at the mouth of the little river Sid. It flows approximately 10 miles from Crowpits Covert by Sidbury and Sidford to the mouth on the English Channel.

History

According to the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) the village Sedemuda was called. How many places on the south coast, it was a small fishing village.

Jurassic Coast

The coast and cliffs in the East Devon and Dorset on the English Channel are one of the natural wonders of the world. From Orcombe Point, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks, east of Studland Bay, a 155 km long coastline, which has been declared as the first natural landscape in England by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site stretches.

Sidmouth is a Gateway Town and gravel beach is part of the so-called Jurassic Coast.

• See also list of places on the Jurassic Coast

Geology

The nature of revelations along the seafront at Sidmouth reveal a continuous sequence of incurred during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous geological structures and present about 185 million years of Earth's history. The rock layers along the south coast are slightly tilted to the east. Therefore, the oldest part of the coast is found in the western area, progressively younger rocks form the cliffs to the east.

In this section there are five dominant rock layers.