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The modern name of Exeter is a development of the Old English Escanceaster, [4] from the anglicised form of the river now known as the Exe and the Old English suffix-ceaster (as in Dorchester and Gloucester), used to mark important fortresses or fortified towns (from Latin castrum, meaning fortress, or castra, military camp).
Exeter Cathedral. Exeter Synagogue. George's Chapel. St David's Church. St Martin's Church, Exeter. St Mary Arches Church. St Michael and All Angels, Dinham Mount. St Michael and All Angels' Church (Heavitree) St Nicholas Priory.
Website. exeter.ac.uk. The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Mines were established in 1838, 1855, 1863, and 1888 respectively.
The EX postcode area, also known as the Exeter postcode area, [2] is a group of 33 postcode districts in South West England, within 30 post towns.These cover north and east Devon (including Exeter, Barnstaple, Axminster, Beaworthy, Bideford, Braunton, Budleigh Salterton, Chulmleigh, Colyton, Crediton, Cullompton, Dawlish, Exmouth, Holsworthy, Honiton, Ilfracombe, Lynmouth, Lynton, North Tawton ...
Prehistory. Devon was one of the first areas of Great Britain settled following the end of the last ice age. Kents Cavern in Torbay is one of the earliest places in England known to have been occupied by modern man. Dartmoor is thought to have been settled by Mesolithic hunter-gatherer peoples from about 6000 BC, and they later cleared much of ...
Devon. Devon (/ ˈdɛvən / DEV-ən; historically also known as Devonshire /- ʃɪər, - ʃər / -sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west. The city of Plymouth is the largest ...
The Exeter Cathedral Astronomical Clock is one of the group of famous 14th- to 16th-century astronomical clocks to be found in the west of England. Others are at Wells, Ottery St Mary, and Wimborne Minster. The main, lower, dial is the oldest part of the clock, dating from 1484. [6]
St Thomas, Exeter. St Thomas (St Thomas the Apostle's) is an area of Exeter and formerly a 3,700-acre (15 km 2) civil parish and registration district in Devon, England, on the western side of the River Exe, connected to Exeter by Exe Bridge. It has a number of pubs, places of worship, several schools and a large shopping precinct.