South Molton
South Molton is a village in Devon, England. It becomes part of the North Devon local government area. The town gets on the River Mole. According to the 2001 census the civil parish of South Molton had a population of 4,093, boosting to 5,108 at the 2011 Census. The town also has a selecting ward with the same name. The population of this ward at the very same census was 4,875 We have therefore the unusual scenario where the town is larger than the ward. The town was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It maintained this status as a community district up until 1967, when it became a country district in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a well-built market community trading mostly in sheep as well as cattle. South Molton had a railway station on the Devon Railway until 1966, when the branch line was ultimately shut. The station was described in detail in the most effective selling train publication the Country Railway. It is situated on the southern side of Exmoor just off the North Devon link road, which in part follows the path of the railway line.