Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom

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๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Exeter is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately 36 miles north-east of Plymouth and 65 miles south-west of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal command of Vespasian. Exeter became a religious centre in the Middle Ages. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican in the 16th century English Reformation. Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade, although by the First World War the city was in decline. After the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now a centre for business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall.

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Economy The Met Office, the main weather forecasting organisation for the United Kingdom and one of the most significant in the world, relocated from Bracknell in Berkshire to Exeter in early 2004. It is one of the largest employers in the area (together with the University of Exeter, Devon County Council and the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust).

Around 35,000 people commute into Exeter on a daily basis, from nearby surrounding towns. Exeter provides services, employment and shopping for local residents within the city limits and also from nearby towns in Teignbridge, Mid Devon and East Devon, together sometimes known as the Exeter & Heart of Devon area. Exeter has been identified among the top ten most profitable locations for a business to be based.

The city centre provides substantial shopping facilities. The High Street is mainly devoted to branches of national chains: a NEF survey in 2005 rated Exeter as the worst example of a clone town in the UK, with only a single independent store in the city's High Street, and less diversity (in terms of different categories of shop) than any other town surveyed. In 2010, a similar survey reported the city was still the worst clone town. As of 2019, the last independent store on the high street is closed. Three significant shopping areas that connect to the High Street provide a somewhat more varied menu. Princesshay, a post-war retail area connecting to the south side of the High Street was home to a number of independent stores prior to redevelopment in 2007, but is now also largely occupied by national chains. It is still intended that a number of the new units will be let to local independent stores. The House of Fraser building on the high street has been bought by a local wealth performance management firm, Prydis, who have released their plans to redevelop the building as a three-storey hotel with a rooftop bar and retail shops. On the other side of the High Street, the partly-undercover Guildhall Shopping Centre houses a mixture of national and more regional shops, and connects to the wholly enclosed Harlequins Centre where smaller businesses predominate. Smaller streets off the High Street such as Gandy Street also offer a range of independent shops.

On 26 June 2004, Exeter was granted Fairtrade City status. Although Exeter contains a number of tourist attractions, the city is not dominated by tourism, with only 7% of employment dependent on tourism compared with 13% for Devon as a whole.

There are also plans to build on land in the Teignbridge and East Devon areas, which border Exeter's boundaries, as part of the "Exeter Growth Point" strategy. This includes the new town of Cranbrook, located about five miles to the east of the city in East Devon, where construction began in 2011 and which is now home to several thousand residents.

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Exeter, Devon 
Exeter, Devon
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Exeter was ranked #935 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. Exeter has a population of over 105,000 people. Exeter also forms the centre of the wider Exeter metropolitan area which has a population of over 259,000 people. Exeter is ranked #522 for startups with a score of 0.344. It is estimated there are around 5,650 businesses in Exeter.

To set up a UBI Lab for Exeter see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork

Exeter is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Literature see: https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Exeter has links with:

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Bad Homburg, Germany ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Rennes, France ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Terracina, Italy ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Yaroslavl, Russia
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  • Reginald Theodore Blomfield |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Garden Designer Reginald Theodore Blomfield is associated with Exeter. He was a founder member of the Art Workersโ€™ Guild in 1884 and subsequently was made its honorary secretary.

  • Norman Whicheloe |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Norman Whicheloe is associated with Exeter.

  • Alfred Brumwell Thomas |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Alfred Brumwell Thomas is associated with Exeter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1906.

  • Philip Gerald Prewett |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Philip Gerald Prewett is associated with Exeter. He was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1934.

  • John Herbert Parker |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect John Herbert Parker is associated with Exeter. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1925.

  • Anthony Merlott Chitty |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Anthony Merlott Chitty is associated with Exeter. He was President of the Architectural association in 1950-51.

  • Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Sculptor Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes is associated with Exeter. Much of his work was for the Roman Catholic Church for whom he designed churches, schools and convents.

  • Henry Edward Farmer |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Henry Edward Farmer is associated with Exeter. During World War One he was Chief Architect for Admiralty Control.

  • Henry Cornwallis Rogers |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Henry Cornwallis Rogers is associated with Exeter. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1891.

  • Arthur Southcombe Parker |

    ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Arthur Southcombe Parker is associated with Exeter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1903.

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See Also: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Exeter, New Hampshire, United States | ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Exeter, Ontario, Canada

Antipodal to Exeter is: 176.467,-50.723

Antipodal to: Exeter 176.467,-50.723

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Dunedin 170.474,-45.884 d: 19318.4  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Otago 170.483,-45.867 d: 19317.3  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Balclutha 169.75,-46.233 d: 19312.5  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Christchurch 172.617,-43.517 d: 19162.8  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Canterbury 171.58,-43.543 d: 19135.8  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Invercargill 168.373,-46.413 d: 19251.4  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Wellington 174.767,-41.283 d: 18957.4  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18951.4  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18951.4  

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Queenstown 168.658,-45.033 d: 19156.1  

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