Countess Wear

Meaning

Proper Noun

• suburb city, Exeter Devon (county) England (constituent country) .

Origin

• From a weir the Countess of Devon had built across the River Exe in the late 13th century, to prevent navigation upriver to Exeter; the weir was later bypassed by a canal. "Wear" or "Weare" is an obsolete variant of "weir".