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Exeter District

Exeter

Exeter is the county town of and historically the administrative capital of the south-west peninsula. A historic mid-sized cathedral city with a good blend of arts, education, retail and history.
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  • Type: City with 131,000 residents
  • Description: city in Devon, England
  • Also known as: “Exeter, Devon” and “Exeter, England”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Exeter Cathedral and Exeter St Davids railway station.

Church
Photo: Rüdiger Wölk, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, , in .

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the principal and largest railway station in Exeter, also the second-busiest station in Devon. It is 193 miles 72 chains from the zero point at , from where trains travel through Exeter to and .

Stadium
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is a football in Exeter and the home of Exeter City FC. The stadium is served by the , which is right next to the ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heavitree and Ide.

Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a historic village and former civil parish situated formerly outside the walls of the City of Exeter in , England, and is today an eastern district of that city.

Village
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is a village in , England, just under 1 mile southwest of Exeter. The village church is dedicated to the German Saint Ida of Herzfeld and was rebuilt in 1834.

Suburb
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is a former village, manor and ecclesiastical parish in Devon, England, now a part of the City of Exeter. The 13th century St Loye's Chapel situated within the parish now gives its name to the surrounding location.

Exeter

Latitude
50.7256° or 50° 43′ 32″ north
Longitude
-3.5269° or 3° 31′ 37″ west
Population
131,000
Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)
IATA airport code
EXT
United Nations Location Code
GB EXE
Open location code
9C2RPFGF+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18009959
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2649808
Wiki­data ID
Q134672
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Exeter” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Exeter”
  • Arabic: “إكزتر”
  • Arabic: “إكستر”
  • Arabic: “اكستر”
  • Arabic: “اكسيتر”
  • Aragonese: “Exeter”
  • Armenian: “Էքսետեր”
  • Asturian: “Exeter”
  • Basque: “Exeter”
  • Belarusian: “Эксетэр”
  • Belarusian: “Эксэтэр”
  • Bengali: “এক্সেটার”
  • Bosnian: “Exeter”
  • Breton: “Exeter”
  • Breton: “Keresk / Exeter”
  • Bulgarian: “Ексетър”
  • Bulgarian: “Екситър”
  • Bulgarian: “Ексътър”
  • Catalan: “Exeter”
  • Cebuano: “Exeter (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Exeter”
  • Chinese: “Exeter”
  • Chinese: “埃克塞特”
  • Chinese: “愛塞特”
  • Chinese: “艾克希特”
  • Chinese: “艾希特”
  • Chinese: “雅息特”
  • Cornish: “Karesk”
  • Croatian: “Exeter”
  • Czech: “Exeter”
  • Danish: “Exeter”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Exeter”
  • Dutch: “Exeter”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكزتر”
  • Esperanto: “Eksetero”
  • Esperanto: “Exeter”
  • Estonian: “Exeter”
  • Estonian: “Isca Dumnoniorum”
  • Finnish: “Exeter”
  • French: “Exeter”
  • Galician: “Exeter”
  • German: “Exeter”
  • German: “Karesk”
  • Greek: “Έξετερ”
  • Gujarati: “એક્સેટર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Exeter”
  • Hebrew: “אקסטר”
  • Hindi: “एक्सेटर”
  • Hindi: “एक्सेर”
  • Hungarian: “Exeter”
  • Icelandic: “Exeter”
  • Ido: “Exeter”
  • Indonesian: “Exeter, Inggris”
  • Indonesian: “Exeter”
  • Irish: “Exeter”
  • Italian: “Exeter”
  • Japanese: “エクセター”
  • Kannada: “ಎಕ್ಸೆಟರ್”
  • Korean: “엑서터”
  • Korean: “엑세터”
  • Korean: “엑시터”
  • Kurdish: “Exeter”
  • Ladin: “Exeter”
  • Latin: “Exeter”
  • Latin: “Exonia”
  • Latin: “Isca”
  • Latvian: “Eksetera”
  • Lithuanian: “Ekseteris”
  • Lithuanian: “Exeter”
  • Lombard: “Exeter”
  • Macedonian: “Ексетер”
  • Malay: “Exeter”
  • Maltese: “Exeter”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯛꯁꯦꯇꯔ”
  • Marathi: “एक्सेटर”
  • Mazanderani: “اکستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Exeter (Eng-lân)”
  • Moksha: “Эксэтэр”
  • Northern Frisian: “Exeter”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Exeter”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isca Dumnonorium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Exeter”
  • Norwegian: “Exeter”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Escanceaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Exanceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Эксетер”
  • Persian: “اکستر”
  • Polish: “Exeter”
  • Portuguese: “Exeter”
  • Quechua: “Exeter”
  • Romanian: “Exeter”
  • Russian: “Эксетер”
  • Scots: “Exeter”
  • Serbian: “Ekseter”
  • Serbian: “Exeter”
  • Serbian: “Ексетер”
  • Serbian: “Екситер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ekseter”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Exeter”
  • Sicilian: “Exeter”
  • Silesian: “Exeter”
  • Sinhala: “එක්සේටර්”
  • Slovak: “Exeter”
  • Slovenian: “Exeter”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اکستر”
  • Spanish: “Exeter”
  • Swahili: “Exeter”
  • Swedish: “Exeter”
  • Tagalog: “Exeter”
  • Tamil: “எக்சீட்டர்”
  • Tamil: “எஸேடேர்”
  • Tamil: “ஏஸ்ட்ர்”
  • Tatar: “Эксетер”
  • Telugu: “ఎక్సెటర్”
  • Thai: “Exeter”
  • Thai: “เอกซิเตอร์”
  • Thai: “เอ็กซิเตอร์”
  • Thai: “เอ็กซีเตอร์”
  • Thai: “เอกเซเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Exeter”
  • Ukrainian: “Ексетер”
  • Urdu: “ایکسٹر”
  • Venetian: “Exeter”
  • Veps: “Ekseter”
  • Vietnamese: “Exeter”
  • Volapük: “Exeter”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Exeter”
  • Welsh: “Caerwysg”
  • Welsh: “Exeter”
  • Western Frisian: “Exeter”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایکسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃克塞特”
  • Yiddish: “עקסעטער”
  • Yue Chinese: “雅息特”

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