Cathedral Close

Exeter Views An Exeter shopping area with a history of more than a thousand years!

What a great place if the sun is out - You can quietly sit, watch, and soak up the lovely atmosphere that the Cathedral Close has to offer. Alternatively, why not do a little shopping! A lot of the period buildings within the historic Close, Yard and Martin's Lane are occupied by restaurants, bars and numerous shops that sell town & country fashions, shoes, jewellery, paintings, and books.

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Visit Exeter This is what makes Exeter so different from any other city in the region.

Away from the busy High Street you'll find a wealth of chic independent stores that you can't find anywhere else.

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Exeter Memories The Cathedral Close has been the heart of Exeter since the Romans built their bath house, and basilica, in the First and Second Centuries. Christianity was established by 680 when a young man from Crediton who was educated at the Minster, would became St Boniface, of Germany. Leofric, Bishop of Devon and Cornwall, was based in Crediton, when he obtained permission to move to the walled city of Exeter, to escape marauding Danish raiders. He arrived in 1050 and worked to improve an impoverished church in the city, survived the Norman invasion, and helped a smooth transition to Norman rule. Work was started on a new Cathedral in 1114 by Bishop Warelwast, and by 1200, the two great towers were complete. A period of rebuilding commenced in 1270, turning the Cathedral Yard into a massive building site, and a magnet for every vagrant around.

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