Braunton is an English village, civil parish, ecclesiastical church as well as former estate in Devon. The village is positioned 5 miles (8 km) west of Barnstaple. While not the biggest town in England, it is among the most populated in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 people. There are 2 selecting wards (East as well as West). Their joint population at the above demographics 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 Reserve, the largest psammosere (sand dune system) in England. It faces the Atlantic Ocean at the west of the church at the huge beach of Saunton Sands, among the South West's international-standard browsing coastlines. The population of Braunton, according to the census of 1801, was 1,296. This number increased rather quickly in the thirty years to 1831, to 2,047 nonetheless the price of boost reduced throughout the next one decade and also accompanying the arrival of the railway dropped from 2,364 in 1851 to 2,089 in 1881. Population growth resumed as well as saw practically a doubling between 1961 and also 2011, to 8,128 people. Data for 1801-- 1961 is offered at Britain Through Time. The 2001 and 2011 Demographics offer in-depth information regarding the village. The negotiation's population in 2011 were living in 3,552 households.