{"id":276,"date":"2026-09-27T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:23:23","slug":"a-short-history-of-sidmouth-in-ten-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/history-and-heritage\/a-short-history-of-sidmouth-in-ten-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"A short history of Sidmouth in ten dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sidmouth has been a fishing village, a medieval market town and a fashionable Regency resort. Here are ten dates that shaped it.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>1086:<\/strong> recorded in the Domesday Book as Sedemuda, \u201cmouth of the Sid\u201d.<\/li><li><strong>1628:<\/strong> a fort is built amid fears of a French invasion.<\/li><li><strong>1819:<\/strong> the Duke and Duchess of Kent arrive on Christmas Eve with baby Princess Victoria.<\/li><li><strong>1846:<\/strong> the Sid Vale Association is founded, regarded as Britain\u2019s first civic society.<\/li><li><strong>1874:<\/strong> the railway arrives from Sidmouth Junction.<\/li><li><strong>1912:<\/strong> the Norman Lockyer Observatory is completed on Salcombe Hill.<\/li><li><strong>1934:<\/strong> the Duke of Connaught opens Connaught Gardens.<\/li><li><strong>1955:<\/strong> the first Sidmouth folk festival.<\/li><li><strong>1967:<\/strong> the railway closes under the Beeching cuts.<\/li><li><strong>2001:<\/strong> the Jurassic Coast becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/de\/history\/\">Read the full history of Sidmouth<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sedemuda in the Domesday Book to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, ten dates that shaped Sidmouth.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-heritage","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}