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A Town with a rich history<br />
Extract from the 1917-18 Sidmouth Town Guide:<br />
Sidmouth<br />
The place and the people<br />
This sunny little Devon town, which may, without flight of<br />
fancy, be likened to the home of a modern parallel of the<br />
Goddess Hygéia, stands in a perfectly ideal situation. It<br />
is <strong>lo</strong>cated in the centre of beautifully wooded scenery, its<br />
south front touched by the waters of a great bay, stretching<br />
eastward from Start Point, on the extreme south coast of the<br />
county, as far as Portland Bill, in the the county of Dorset.<br />
Sidmouth nestles in an inner bay, between two great rocky<br />
formations of bright and varied tint, their caps c<strong>lo</strong>thed in<br />
brilliant green turf. Far away inland stretch <strong>lo</strong>vely hills<br />
and fertile valleys through which wind pictu<strong>res</strong>que roads,<br />
lanes and streams, the f<strong>lo</strong>wer-decked landscape basking for<br />
the greater part of the year in soft sunshine, or under skies<br />
whose tints and tones rival the variant g<strong>lo</strong>ries of the Tropics.<br />
A Sidmouth sunset, with its splendid ever-changing tints -<br />
gold, turquoise, crimson, emerald and violet - is a spectacle to<br />
linger in the mind for a lifetime.<br />
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