Sidmouth Close

The name

Sidmouth Close probably takes its name from Sidmouth Golf Club. Its course looks out over the Regency town and Lyme Bay, and was laid out by J.H. Taylor, five times Open champion.

Where the club's facts come from: Sidmouth Golf Club, the club's own history.

How sure we are of the match: Likely

The estate's streets were named after golf courses. The streets page explains how each match was made.

In the story

• Hole 8
  The tee was in the small clump of trees on the southern edge of the fields, behind Fulford Grove. The hole ran west along that edge, close to the Sidmouth Close gardens, to a green at the south-east corner of Big Wood.
• Change and renewal: The road that was never built
  A buyer in Sidmouth Close in the 1970s still found the route on the local search, long after the scheme had been dropped.

Close by

Buildings

• The Jet (site) 120 m
• South Oxhey Baptist Church 320 m
• Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve 340 m
• Estate timber yard, Paddock Spring 370 m
• Little Furze School (site) 390 m

Ancient woods

• Ox Pasture Spring (by Gosforth Lane) 130 m
• Big Wood 260 m
• Oxhey Woods, northern part (Old and Young Hangings, Little Furze Field, The Plantation) 340 m

Walk stops

• Site of The Jet 120 m
  Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk
• Blairhead Drive 240 m
  Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk
• Ox Pasture Spring 260 m
  The lost golf course walk

Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.