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Exeter College is a general further education college in Exeter, Devon; [2] [3] it was the first such college in England, [4] [5] and was the highest-ranked in the country in 2017. [6] The college has its origins in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum , founded in 1869, and first became an independent institution in 1893 as the Exeter Technical ...
The Government made to the inhabitants of Exeter a grant of £1500 for the building of a boys' school, with a further £300 a year for its continual maintenance.. Hele's Endowed School opened on 15 January 1850 in Hele Road, St David's Exeter with a capacity for 88 boys who received instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, mathematics, English grammar and history.
A siding to the Hele Paper factory was laid in 1919 and used up to the 1980s. Passenger services were withdrawn on 5 October 1964 but public freight facilities were kept until 17 May 1965. The old Bristol and Exeter Railway signal box was closed on 9 December 1985 when control of the level crossing was transferred to the new panel signal box at ...
An equestrian statue of General Sir Redvers Buller stands at the junction of Hele Road and New North Road, close to Exeter College, Exeter, between St David's Church, Exeter and Bury Meadow Park. It was unveiled in 1905, and the bronze statue is mounted on a plinth of Cornish granite. It became a Grade II listed building in 1953.
Hele is a village in Devon, England, lying about one mile (1.6 km) SSW of Bradninch and 10 miles (16 km) NNE of Exeter, on the River Culm. The village is home to a paper mill once belonging to the company Wiggins Teape, now part of the multinational company Purico Group. The Devon Valley Mill produces sausage casing paper and teabag paper under ...
EXETER — A well-known Seacoast developer is proposing to build more than 120 housing units as part of a mixed-use development at 76 Portsmouth Ave.. Green & Company of North Hampton has ...
Exeter College's Broad Street frontage. Exeter College was founded in 1314 by Walter Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter and later treasurer to Edward II, and his brother, Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician, [6] [7] [8] as a school to educate clergy. [9] The college initially used Hart Hall, now Hertford College, and moved to Turl Street in ...
The Exeter board rejected RiverWoods' proposed three-story, 158,000-square-foot building, citing a negative impact on neighbors. Exeter board rejects RiverWoods' plan for 'massive' new health ...