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The modern name of Exeter is a development of the Old English Escanceaster, [5] 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).
The city is subdivided into thirteen wards, for electoral and other purposes relating to Exeter City Council. Since boundary changes came into effect in 2016 , the following is the list of current wards:
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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 ...
Newtown is an area of Exeter between St Sidwells and Heavitree and was traditionally an area for the poor since Saxon times. A workhouse was built in 1671 on a site currently used as a car park, but Newtown remained largely rural up until the 19th century. Around 1700 a new workhouse was built on what is now the site of Heavitree Hospital.
Location of St Thomas's Church (indicated by green arrow) on 1765 map of the City of Exeter by Benjamin Donne St Thomas's Church in 2006. 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.
This insubordination spread swiftly into serious revolt. The Cornish quickly joined the men of Devon in the Prayer Book Rebellion and Exeter was besieged until relieved by Lord Russell. [91] The Cornish had a particular motivation for opposing the new English language prayer book, as there were still many monoglot Cornish speakers in West Cornwall.
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