Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Sidmouth. You may be able to find further references to Sidmouth in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Sidmouth	watering-place	Bartholomew
SIDMOUTH AND BUDLEIGH-SALTERTON RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial
SIDMOUTH RAILWAY	a railway	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Sidmouth within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Cornwall and Devon	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Sidford	0	2
Sidbury	0	2
Salcombe Regis	0	2
Tipton St John	0	2
Branscombe	0	2
Wiscombe	0	1
Ottery St Mary	4	2
Dotton	0	2
Harpford	0	2
Farway	0	2
Southleigh	0	3
Venn Ottery	0	4
Newton Poppleford	0	2
Otterton	0	2
Gittisham	0	2
West Hill	0	2
Northleigh	0	2
Beer	0	2
Colaton Raleigh	0	2
Escot	0	2