OS grid reference SY135902 Post town SIDMOUTH | Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district EX10 Local time Tuesday 2:41 AM | |
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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.
Map of Sidford, Sidmouth, UK
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.
In the village centre there is a small Spar supermarket, a post office, a pharmacy and a fish and chip shop, Bloaters. There is also a hairdresser, a legal centre, 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.