Braunton
Braunton is an English village, civil parish, ecclesiastical church and former chateau in Devon. The town is located 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of Barnstaple. While not the largest town in England, it is amongst one of the most populous in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 people. There are 2 electoral wards (East as well as West). Their joint population at the above census was 8,218. Within the parish is the productive, low-lying Braunton Great Field, which joins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Location in North Devon Biosphere Book, the biggest psammosere (dune system) in England. It faces the Atlantic Sea at the west of the parish at the big 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 rather swiftly in the thirty years to 1831, to 2,047 nonetheless the price of rise slowed during the next 10 years and accompanying the arrival of the railway dropped from 2,364 in 1851 to 2,089 in 1881. Population growth resumed and also saw nearly a doubling in between 1961 and 2011, to 8,128 people. Information for 1801-- 1961 is offered at Britain Via Time. The 2001 and 2011 Censuses offer in-depth information about the town. The settlement's population in 2011 were residing in 3,552 homes.