{"id":221,"date":"2013-04-17T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T08:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2018-04-09T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T08:44:17","slug":"exeter-clock-tower-great-for-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/exeter-clock-tower-great-for-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter Clock Tower &#8211; Great for directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Exeter Clock Tower<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Archived from the blog \u2018Image of Exeter\u2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have used the Clock Tower in Exeter to give directions to tourists and visitors to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exeter<\/a> more times than I can remember. This particularly to people arriving at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-transport3.php\">Exeter St David&#8217;s railway station<\/a> wanting to get to the city centre:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turn right at the statue with the man on the horse and then right again on the roundabout with the big clock in the middle &#8211; the Exeter Clock Tower<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_222\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/exeter-clock-tower-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/exeter-clock-tower-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/exeter-clock-tower.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exeter Clock Tower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Clock Tower was opened in 1897 by Louisa Miles in memory of her husband William Miles who had originally placed a horses drinking fountain there. A fountain still remain today but below this much more prominent Clock Tower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The blog \u2018Image of Exeter\u2019 is no longer online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exeter Clock Tower Archived from the blog \u2018Image of Exeter\u2019 I have used the Clock Tower in Exeter to give directions to tourists and visitors to Exeter more times than I can remember. This particularly to people arriving at Exeter St David&#8217;s railway station wanting to get to the city centre: Turn right at the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/exeter-clock-tower-great-for-directions\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-of-exeter","tag-places-to-see"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exeterviews.co.uk\/exeter-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}