However, in June a royalist army laid siege to the town. Exeter was forced to surrender in early September. However parliamentary forces recaptured Exeter early in The streets are well-paved, spacious streets and a vast trade are carried on. Exeter may have been a rich city but there were a great many people in Exeter living at subsistence bare survival level.
However, for the well-off life grew more comfortable and genteel. Life in 18th century Exeter slowly improved, at least for the well off. By Exeter had its first newspaper. The first bank in Exeter opened in Also in Assembly Rooms were built.
After the streets were lit by oil lamps and in pavements were made in the main streets. New County Courts were built in and in Devon and Exeter hospital was built. Also in , a new Exe bridge was built. New Bridge Street was laid out to lead to it. The old industry of wool manufacture continued to flourish and the port continued to import large quantities of wine.
However, Exeter became very cramped as the population grew but most people continued to live inside the walls. In North Gate was demolished to ease the flow of traffic. East Gate followed in One great street runs through the city from East to West.
The rest consists of dirty lanes. The streets are not flagged neither are they regularly cleaned as in other parts of the kingdom. In , at the time of the first census, Exeter had a population of 20, By the standards of the time, it was a large and important town. However, towns and cities in the Midlands and the North soon overtook Exeter. The industrial revolution largely passed it by. During the 19th century, Exeter continued to grow in absolute numbers its population more than doubled to 50, by but it declined in relative size.
In the 18th century, Exeter was the 6th largest town in England. By it had fallen to 60th place. Exeter dwindled to being a quiet market town. Nevertheless, it spread beyond the walls and in West Gate and Water Gate were demolished.
During the 19th century, the traditional industries of wool manufacture and tanning also declined. Exeter ceased to be an important manufacturing centre. Meanwhile, in a body of men called the Improvement Commissioners was formed with powers to pave, clean, and light the streets of Exeter.
However much of the town was still dirty and unsanitary. Like all 19th century towns, Exeter had appalling slums. In a cholera epidemic killed people. Afterward, a network of sewers was built.
From horse-drawn trams ran in the streets. By the population of Exeter had risen to about 60, Meanwhile, in the horse-drawn trams in Exeter were replaced by electric ones. Australia has three places named Exeter.
Exeter, New South Wales, population , is most famous for its fatal railroad accident in The town mascot is Willis the White Wonder, who appears at many local events. Outside of Exeter, England we are the largest Exeter in terms of population. Here at the Exeter Historical Society we often get emails requesting information about the other Exeters.
To the best of my knowledge, there have been no vampire exhumations here. There is archeological evidence of clay quarrying to produce roofing tiles in the Princesshay area close to where the city wall would be built. It is thought, by some, that Mancetter was the venue for the final battle with Boudica and her , army of Britons.
Boudica fled back to Iceni territory where she too, commits suicide. Around this time a street was laid out at right angles to the High Street through the centre of Princesshay towards the city wall. The builders created a clay rampart layered with chippings of volcanic stone from the masons as they faced the wall. The street through Princesshay was re-aligned and a large Roman Town House with three ranges of rooms and a courtyard was constructed.
Two rooms had hypocausts underfloor heating , the rest had mortar floors. Early in the 5th century the Romans abandon Britain. The town became derelict and largely returned to agriculture. Exeter has been recorded under many different variations, including Hexter, Hexeter, Exeter, Exter and others. For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect.
On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Exeter or a variant listed above: Exeter Settlers in United States in the 18th Century Eliza Exeter , who arrived in Virginia in Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about , passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
By , the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in , many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life.
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