Braunton is an English village, civil parish, clerical church as well as former manor in Devon. The town is located 5 miles (8 km) west of Barnstaple. While not the biggest town in England, it is amongst one of the most populated in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 people. There are two selecting wards (East and West). Their joint population at the above census was 8,218. Within the church is the fertile, low-lying Braunton Great Field, which joins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Area in North Devon Biosphere Get, the biggest psammosere (dune system) in England. It challenges the Atlantic Sea at the west of the church at the huge beach of Saunton Sands, among the South West's international-standard searching coastlines. The population of Braunton, according to the census of 1801, was 1,296. This number boosted quite rapidly in the thirty years to 1831, to 2,047 nevertheless the price of increase slowed throughout the next 10 years as well as 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 practically a doubling in between 1961 as well as 2011, to 8,128 individuals. Information for 1801-- 1961 is offered at Britain Through Time. The 2001 and 2011 Demographics offer detailed information about the village. The settlement's population in 2011 were residing in 3,552 homes.