Sidbury Castle, Devon
Photo © Sarah Charlesworth, 22 September 2008
Sidbury Castle, Devon
Photo © Sarah Charlesworth,
22 September 2008
Sidbury Castle is a substantial Iron Age hill fort near Sidbury in Devon, England. It occupies a large hilltop, hidden by the trees on the summit, overlooking the town and the River Sid at approximately 185 metres (607 ft) above sea level.
Sidbury Castle, the Tidortit of the Romans, which overlooks the vale leading to Sidmouth, was the intermediate or lost station between the Hiberna at Eteter and Seaton, although no mention is made of it in the above Iter. (Sidbury in Domesday, terra episcopi Exon. Sideberie and Tidortis, derived from the Cornish Tyd, or British Tia and Tydhyn, in Welsh land; Dour or Dur, the common name of water in many ancient languages; and Tiz or Tuz, a people, sept, or family, in the Cornish or British (in Armoric tyd), that is, the people or tribe inhabiting the land irrigated by the waters of the Sid, occupying the site of the five Combes, known as Sandcombe, Harcombe, &c.
The Gentleman's magazine, 1837