Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
H G Wells wrote a horror story set in Sidmouth called “The Sea Raiders”. It tells of Mr Fison, a retired tea dealer, staying at a boarding house in Sidmouth. Whilst walking to Ladram Bay along the cliffs he noticed a flurry of seagullsRead More
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Sid Valley Biodiversity Group’s wildflower hunt continues to find new treasures as they follow in the Victorian footsteps of a local doctor. Doctor WH Cullen had a keen interest in many branches of science including keeping weather records and cataloguing local wildlife. His 1849 bookRead More
Leave a comment Last week during the heatwave we saw a wonderful flush of butterflies emerging in the sunny weather. While walking on Soldiers Hill, Meadow Brown butterflies were flying all around. It is a memorable experience. We are in the middle of The Big Butterfly CountRead More
Leave a comment As Rodgers and Hammerstein said, June is busting out all over, or it was for the volunteers of the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group as they carried on their project recording the wild flowers in the valley. The volunteers note which wild flowers they seeRead More
Leave a comment The Deer Population Of The UK Is At An All-Time High With Six Species of Deer in the Country and An Estimated 2+Million Deer In Total. But Most People Rarely, Or Never, See Deer In The Sid Valley Though most deer species are quiteRead More
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