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Exeter

City and administrative headquarters of Devon, England, on the River Exe; population (2001) 106,800. Principal industries are brewing, iron and brass founding, light engineering, printing, financial services, and tourism. Other industries include the manufacture of agricultural machinery, textiles, and leather goods. Exeter was founded by the Romans as Isca Dumnoniorum and has medieval, Georgian, and Regency architecture. Exeter Cathedral was built largely between 1280 and 1369. Exeter University was established in 1955.

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  • Clew, Kenneth R., The Exeter Canal, Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1984.
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  • Gilg, A, “Exeter in the Twentieth Century” in Historical Atlas of South-West England, edited by Kain, Roger and Ravenhill, William, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.
  • Henderson, C G., “Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum)” in Fortress into City: The Consolidation of Roman Britain, First Century AD, edited by Webster, Graham, London: Batsford, 1988.
  • Henderson, C G., “The City of Exeter from AD 50 to the Early Nineteenth Century” in Historical Atlas of South-West England, edited by Kain, Roger and Ravenhill, William, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.
  • Hoskins, W G., Two Thousand Years in Exeter, Exeter: Townsend, 1960.
  • Kowaleski, Maryanne, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medival Exeter, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Orme, N; C G. Henderson, “Exeter Cathedral” in Historical Atlas of South-West England, edited by Kain, Roger and Ravenhill, William, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.