Red Coat Guided Tour: Writers Around Exeter

Writers Around Exeter, a Red Coat 90-minute special tour, celebrates Exeter’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature. We shall use city centre sites to explore how Exeter’s history has encouraged and sustained literary development. For nearly 2000 years the city and surrounds have inspired reading and writing. From popular children’s authors to well-known writers of recent centuries, who have been the writers who have stayed or visited? How have they described and illuminated Exeter’s heritage? How Exeter’s institutions have contributed and continue to do so. Tour starts from the Devon War Memorial on Cathedral Green at 11.15am