Sidmouth had been a fashionable resort and a small port.
It became the area's most fashionable resort, growing in size until it was a village unto itself.
Most fashionable resorts display only one of these aberrations; here you get both.
The city became a fashionable resort in the 1900s when health tourists arrived with conditions that required dry heat.
In the 19th century, the town became a fashionable resort for the Russian aristocracy and gentry.
Anyone who goes to a fashionable resort would find plenty in the collection.
"That's what I would tell any of my friends going to a fashionable resort," she said.
It was used only as a theatre, and its gardens became a fashionable resort of Parisians.
That's why it was no longer a fashionable resort.
For part of the 19th century it was one of Britain's most fashionable resorts.