Isca Hockey Club Isca Hockey Club Isca Hockey Club is a field hockey club that plays in Exeter. The club plays fixtures at various locations including the main campus of the University of Exeter, Blundell's School, Exeter School and King's School, Ottery St Mary. The club runs six men's, five women's, mixed, veterans and junior teams. The men's first X1 play in the England Hockey League Men's Conference West and the women's first X1 play in the England Hockey League Investec Conference West. A three-year sponsorship deal was secured in 2013 with Gilbert Stephens Solicitors. The name Isca originates from Isca Dumnoniorum and
Celtic language decline in England England begin to be attested from around 670, pre-eminently in Anglo-Saxon charters; they have been intensively surveyed by the English and Scottish Place-Name Societies. Except in Cornwall, the vast majority of place-names in England are easily etymologised as Old English (or Old Norse, due to later Viking influence), demonstrating the dominance of English across post-Roman England. This has traditionally been seen as evidence for a cataclysmic cultural and demographic shift at the end of the Roman period, in which not only the Brittonic and Latin languages, but also Brittonic and Latin place-names, and even Brittonic- and Latin-speakers, were swept away.