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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 40 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIDMOUTH , a See also:

market See also:town and watering-See also:place in the See also:Honiton See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Devonshire, See also:England, on the See also:river Sid and the See also:English Channel, 1674 m. W. by S. of See also:London, by the London & See also:South-Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 4201. Lying in a hollow, the town is shut in by hills which terminate in the forelands of Salcombe and High See also:Peak, two sheer cliffs of a deep red See also:colour. The See also:shore See also:line curves away, beyond these, westward to the Start and eastward to See also:Portland—both visible from Sidmouth See also:beach. The restored See also:church of St See also:Nicholas, dating from the 13th See also:century, though much altered in the 15th, contains a window given by See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 1866 in memory of her See also:father, the See also:duke of See also:Kent, who lived at Woolbrook Glen, See also:close by, and died there in 1820. An esplanade is built along the See also:sea-See also:wall, and the town possesses See also:golf links and other recreation grounds. The bathing is See also:good, the See also:climate warm. Formerly of some importance, the See also:harbour can no longer be entered by large vessels, and goods are transhipped into See also:flat-bottomed lighters for See also:conveyance ashore. Fishing is extensively carried on and See also:cattle fairs are held. In the 13th century Sidmouth was a See also:borough governed by a See also:port-See also:reeve. Tradition tells of an older town buried under the sea; and See also:Roman coins and other remains have been washed up on the beach.

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ancient See also:camp exist on High Peak.

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