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| Exeter Cathedral and the statue of theologian Richard Hooker |
Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England with a population of about 125,000. It is the county town of Devon, home of the Devon County Council. The city is on the River Exe, about 35 minutes by train from nearby Axminster.
Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain. It became a religious centre during the Middle Ages and into the Tudor times. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican during the 16th-century English Reformation. During the late 19th century Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade but by the First World War the city was in decline. After the Second World War much of the city centre was rebuilt and it's now a centre for modern business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall.
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| Membury |
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| Exeter Cathedral |
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| Exeter Cathedral |
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| Exeter Castle |
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| Castle Street |
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| Lunch at Jamie Oliver's Italian. Always hard to go past Jamie's! |
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| Cathedral Green |
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| Royal Albert Memorial Museum |
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| Queen Street |
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| The Higher Market building |
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| Tudor buildings in High Street |
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| St Stephen's Church with St Stephen's Bow on the right |
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| The ruins of St Catherine's Almshouses, preserved a memorial of the World War Two Blitz |
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