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Exeter (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 42 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.7000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 003 32 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -3.5333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on the River Exe; center of an early British tribe, the Dumnonii, which was later taken over by the Romans; site of a Saxon monastery 680; stormed by Danes in 876 and 1003, Saxon King Athelstan in 926 and William the Conqueror in 1068; sided with Royalists during English Civil War; was wool center 10th-16th centuries; naval base heavily bombed during World War II; Bishop's Palace contains the Exeter Book of 950 and the Exon Domesday Book. |
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| Exeter (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Escancestre (H,O)
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| Essecestra (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Execestre (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Exonia (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Isca Dumnoniorum (H,O)
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............ | ancient Roman name |
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Devon (county) (P) |
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Exeter (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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first occupied by the ancient British Dumnonii tribe during Iron Age |
| city (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| episcopal see (C) |
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since 1050, when see of Devon & Cornwall was moved here from Crediton |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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| port (C) |
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| county (H) |
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from 1537 until the reorganization of local government in 1974 |
| regional capital (C) |
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