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  2. Isca Dumnoniorum - Wikipedia

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    The name Isca Dumnoniorum is a Latinization of a native Brittonic name describing flowing water, in reference to the River Exe.More exactly, the name seems to have originally meant "full of fish" (cf. Welsh pysg, pl. "fish"), [2] although it came to be a simple synonym for water (cf. Scottish whisky). [3]

  3. Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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    The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust operates Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, North Devon District Hospital, and other smaller centres. The trust's application for NHS Foundation Trust status was approved in December 2003, which became effective on 1 April 2004.

  4. Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital - Wikipedia

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    The hospital has multiple sites, with the main site at Wonford in the former grounds of the Wonford House Hospital (run separately by the Devon Partnership NHS Trust). The hospital also operates the nearby Heavitree hospital site, which was formerly the Exeter City Hospital, as well as satellite sites including Whipton Hospital.

  5. Dumnonii - Wikipedia

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    The Latin name for Exeter is Isca Dumnoniorum ("Water of the Dumnonii"). This oppidum (a Latin term meaning an important town) on the banks of River Exe certainly existed prior to the foundation of the Roman city in about AD 50. Isca is derived from the Brythonic word for flowing water, which was

  6. Exeter - Wikipedia

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    Exeter (/ ˈ ɛ k s ɪ t ər / ⓘ EK-sit-ər) is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.It is situated on the River Exe, approximately 36 mi (58 km) northeast of Plymouth and 65 mi (105 km) southwest of Bristol.

  7. Roman sites in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Isca Dumnoniorum (Roman Exeter). Parts of city wall still exist (overlaid with medieval construction) Parts of city wall still exist (overlaid with medieval construction) Moridunum , Axminster

  8. Honeylands - Wikipedia

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    The hospital joined the NHS in 1948, and along with the larger Hawkmoor Hospital near Bovey Tracey, as well as the nearby adult Whipton Hospital and the City Tuberculosis Dispensary in the city centre, Honeylands formed part of the Exeter Special Hospital Management Committee. [4] Map showing the three sanatoria located in the Whipton area of ...

  9. Isca Augusta - Wikipedia

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    The Brythonic name Isca means "water" and refers to the River Usk. The suffix Augusta appears in the Ravenna Cosmography and was an honorific title taken from the legion stationed there. The place is commonly referred to as Isca Silurum to differentiate it from Isca Dumnoniorum and because it lay in the territory of the Silures tribe.