A guide to the wildlife and wild places in the Sidmouth area of Devon
Welcome to the Sidmouth Nature website.
"For the people of Sidmouth interested in nature
and for people from elsewhere interested in the nature of Sidmouth"
The aim of this website is to provide information about the wildlife and wild places in the Sidmouth area of east Devon. The focus is on enjoyment and education not science but, of course, if the data provided furthers the cause of conserving the biodiversity of the area then that would be considered a bonus. To make the website usable by anyone, even those with little or no knowledge, some scientific principles (notably in species classifications) have been blurred a little!
This is a personal project and this website is a home for my own records and photographs but I make it freely available to anyone who finds it useful. I am an enthusiastic amateur naturalist and am not an expert in anything so please use the information and data with caution as I cannot guarantee everything is totally accurate!
[This is a new project that started in January 2023 and a new version of the website launched February 2025]
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Explore Sidmouth Nature from top to bottomThere are various ways to explore the nature of Sidmouth website using the index, search or the chat options but here the information is presented in a hierarchical structure. Starting here with this menu you can delve deeper by clicking on subsequent menu options until you eventually reach the bottom. At any point you can stop off and find out more by clicking on the displayed text. |
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Search Sidmouth Nature with keywordsThere are over 1,000 articles about all manner of topics on this website. The search facility provides a means of searching the text of those articles using up to three search words. These are AND keywords; if you use two or three then all have to be in the text. |
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Access Sidmouth Nature through the indexThe 1,000 or more articles together with other content means that there is an incredible amount of information on the Nature of Sidmouth website. These items have been organised by title into a master alphabetical index which can then be subdivided by topic providing many ways to filter out the type of content you want; species, sites, habitat, geology and more |
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Query the Sidmouth Nature database with reports and chartsIf you are interested in the detail rather than the informative articles then you can use various tools here to produce detailed reports and charts by interrogating the Sidmouth Nature records database. You can print your results, download data to your computer and share information with others. |
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Link from Sidmouth Nature to other resourcesWhilst Sidmouth Nature focuses on the wildlife and wild places in its survey area there is, of course, much more information about specific species and nature in general on other websites and this is a list of those frequently used by the Sidmouth Nature project for detailed species information. You may find them useful too? |
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