Exeter and Its Region
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... later middle ages and beyond , there was economic growth in the countryside in the form of rural industry . Over the South West as a whole the earlier development chronologically was the working , and later mining , of tin . In 1301 ...
... later . He also founded the South Devon Volunteers , which is said to have been the forerunner of the Territorial Army , and was knighted in 1894 . The sadly - named Exeter and Western Counties Idiot Asylum at Starcross was opened ...
... ( later Sir Hector ) Hetherington became Principal . Two years later the College was reconstituted on a territorial basis , supported financially by the County Councils of Devon and Cornwall , the City of Exeter , the City of Plymouth ...