Braunton is an English village, civil parish, ecclesiastical church as well as former mansion in Devon. The town is situated 5 miles (8 km) west of Barnstaple. While not the biggest village in England, it is among one of the most populous in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 people. There are two selecting wards (East as well as West). Their joint population at the above demographics was 8,218. Within the parish is the productive, low-lying Braunton Great Area, which joins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Location in North Devon Biosphere Book, the biggest psammosere (sand dune system) in England. It faces the Atlantic Ocean at the west of the church at the large coastline of Saunton Sands, one of the South West's international-standard browsing beaches. The population of Braunton, according to the census of 1801, was 1,296. This number raised fairly rapidly in the thirty years to 1831, to 2,047 nevertheless the price of increase reduced during the following ten years and accompanying the arrival of the railway fell from 2,364 in 1851 to 2,089 in 1881. Population growth returned to as well as saw almost an increasing between 1961 and 2011, to 8,128 people. Data for 1801-- 1961 is readily available at Britain Through Time. The 2001 and also 2011 Demographics provide comprehensive information concerning the village. The negotiation's population in 2011 were staying in 3,552 houses.