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Exeter
Exeter () is a historic city in Devon, England with a population of (). It lies within the ceremonial county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council. Currently the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district and is therefore under the administration of the County Council. The city is on the River Exe about northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol.
Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican during the 16th-century English Reformation. The modern city's transport hubs include St Davids Railway Station, the Bus and Coach Station, and Exeter International Airport.
==Name==
The modern name of Exeter is a development of the Old English ''Escanceaster'', from the anglicised form of the river now known as the Exe and the Old English suffix , used to mark important fortresses or fortified towns. (The Welsh name for the city, ', similarly means "fortress on the Exe".) The Exe is a separate development of the Brittonic name—meaning "water" or, more exactly, "full of fish" (cf. Welsh ''pysg'', "fish")〔Owen, H.W. & Morgan, R. 2007 Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales Gomer Press, Ceredigion; Gwasg Gomer / Gomer Press; page 484.〕—that also appears in the English Axe and Esk, the Welsh Usk ((ウェールズ語:Wysg)), and Scottish whisky.
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