Bracknell Office maintained a large presence in the town until 2003, when it relocated to Exeter in Devon; however, the junction of the A329 and A3095 is still named the "Met Office Roundabout". Many businesses are located on the town's three industrial areas. Easthampstead Park in the southern suburb of Easthampstead is now a conference centre owned by Bracknell Forest Borough Council. Bracknell was made a civil parish in its own right in 1955. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the entire Easthampstead Rural District became the Bracknell District on 1 April 1974. In 1988, it was granted borough status, and
Devon and Exeter Institution Waller estates including the Exeter townhouse. Her descendants became Viscounts Courtenay and Earls of Devon. An heraldic overmantel "circa" 1750, survives in a back room of 7 Cathedral Close, Exeter, the former town house of the Courtenay family of Powderham, now home of the Devon and Exeter Institution. The left hand painted panel shows the arms of William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (1711-1762): "Quarterly 1st & 4th: Or, three torteaux" (Courtenay); "2 & 3: Or, a lion rampant azure" (de Redvers, Earl of Devon) impaling "Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable", the arms of Finch, Earl of Aylesford,