SIDBURY, a village and a parish in Honiton district, Devon. The village stands on the river Sid, 3 miles N by E of Sidmouth r. station; was once a market town; and has a post-office under Sidmouth, and fairs on the Tuesday before Holy Thursdav and the Wednesday before 20 Sept. The parish contains also the village of Sidford and the hamlet of Harcombe. Acres, 6,827. Real property, £9,682. Pop. in 1851, 1,872; in l861, 1,682. Houses, 358. Cotford House is the seat of W. R. Bayley, Esq.; and Court Hall, of R. Hunt, Esq. A camp, successively British, Roman, Saxon, and Danish, and measuring about 1,500 feet by 300, is on the ridge of Castle Hill; and several ancient earthworks are in other parts. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £606.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of E. The church is partly Norman, partly later English; and has a tower, rebuilt in 1846. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £83.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))