Exeter

From the heights above Exeter, the Exe threads past schooners and heaps of cargo—while below, the city still bears the marks of the stone walls that once held it tight.

Writing in the early twentieth century, Sidney Heath looks beneath the modern streets to a city shaped by Roman legions, Saxon churchmen and Norman lords. Isca Dumnoniorum became Exanceaster, then Exeter: a market centre, a fortress on a river mound, and a place whose past survives in its walls, churches and massive Cathedral. Heath follows the clues left in ancient buildings and buried Roman remains, and recalls the city’s defiant stand when William the Conqueror’s army came to its gates. How much of Exeter’s layered history can still be read in the streets around us?

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