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The Sidmouth Herald is a British newspaper, established in 1849. [citation needed] A team of reporters cover Sidmouth, Beer, Branscombe, Ottery St Mary, and the surrounding areas. Owned by Archant publishing, it has sister papers in the county called the Exmouth Journal, the Midweek Herald and the North Devon Gazette.
Sidmouth ( / ˈsɪdməθ /) is a town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England, 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Exeter. With a population of 12,569 in 2011, it is a tourist resort and a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A large part of the town has been designated a conservation area .
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (30 May 1757 – 15 February 1844) was a British Tory statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. Addington is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavourable peace with Napoleonic France which marked the end of the Second Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars .
Honiton and Sidmouth is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election. [2] The constituency name refers to the Devon towns of Honiton and Sidmouth.
The Donkey Sanctuary. The Donkey Sanctuary is a British charitable organisation devoted to the welfare of donkeys. The charity, which is based near Sidmouth in Devon, England, was founded in 1969. It is one of the largest equine charities in the world with an annual income and expenditure of £37 million. [1] [2]
East Devon. East Devon is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Simon Jupp of the Conservative Party. [n 2] A report by the Electoral Reform Society found the seat (and its precursors) has been held by the Conservative Party since 1835, meaning it has been held for 186 years.
Sidmouth Festival was founded as a folk dance festival in 1955 by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), but gradually expanded to cover ceilidh dancing, music and song, as well as related folk crafts. [2] Over time, the scope also broadened to include performers from abroad, and the festival was renamed the Sidmouth International ...
Viscount Sidmouth, of Sidmouth in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 12 January 1805 for the former prime minister , Henry Addington . [2] In May 1804, King George III intended to confer the titles of Earl of Banbury , Viscount Wallingford and Baron Reading on Addington (an earldom was the customary retirement honour for a former prime ...