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Exeter: Area, History and Background

Riding are well acquainted with the United Kingdom, its cities and towns.

Below is some historic, cultural and background information about the area of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

  • Exeter is an historic city in Devon, England.
  • It lies within ceremonial county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of the county council.
  • Currently the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district, and is therefore under the administration of the County Council.
  • It is on the River Exe, about 37 miles (60 km) northeast of Plymouth, and 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Bristol.
  • According to the 2001 Census, Exeter's population in that year was 111,076.
  • It was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain.
  • Exeter's cathedral, founded in the early 12th century, became Anglican at the time of the 16th century Reformation.
  • It has been identified as one of the top ten most profitable locations for a business to be based.
  • Exeter was at first a Parliamentary town in the English Civil War in the largely Royalist South West.
  • Its industry developed on the basis of locally available agricultural products.
  • Exeter was bombed by the German Luftwaffe in the Second World War, when a total of 18 raids between 1940 and 1942 flattened much of the city centre.