South Molton
South Molton is a village in Devon, England. It becomes part of the North Devon city government area. The town is on the River Mole. According to the 2001 census the civil parish of South Molton had a population of 4,093, enhancing to 5,108 at the 2011 Census. The community additionally has an electoral ward with the very same name. The population of this ward at the exact same census was 4,875 We have for that reason the unusual circumstance where the community is larger than the ward. The town was among the districts reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It maintained this status as a local district up until 1967, when it ended up being a rural borough in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a strong market community trading mostly in lamb and cattle. South Molton had a train station on the Devon Railway till 1966, when the branch line was lastly shut. The station was explained in detail in the very best selling railway publication the Country Railway. It is positioned on the southern side of Exmoor simply off the North Devon web link roadway, which in part follows the route of the train line.
