Sidbury

Map sources for Sidbury at 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 only four miles to Lyme Bay at Sidmouth. There is a working watermill in the village.

The impressive 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.

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