The nearest railway station is at North Walsham for the Bittern Line which runs between Cromer and Norwich.

The section of cliffs at Sidestrand is one of the wildest parts of the Norfolk coast due to its rapid erosion.

The 50m high cliffs contain glacial sediments and structures and its beach is popular with petrologists and fossil hunters.

[5] Now known as Sidestrand Hall School, it caters for boys and girls aged 8 to 16 years with moderate learning difficulties.

The Sidestrand biplane bomber was named after the village; being made at the Boulton & Paul aircraft factory in Norwich in the late 1920s.