South Molton
South Molton is a village in Devon, England. It belongs to the North Devon local 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, raising to 5,108 at the 2011 Census. The community also has an electoral ward with the exact same name. The population of this ward at the same census was 4,875 We have as a result the unusual scenario where the community is larger than the ward. The town was just one of the boroughs changed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It maintained this condition as a metropolitan borough up until 1967, when it came to be a rural district in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a durable market town trading mostly in lamb and also livestock. South Molton had a railway station on the Devon Railway till 1966, when the branch line was lastly closed. The station was explained thoroughly in the best selling railway magazine the Country Railway. It is located on the southerly side of Exmoor just off the North Devon web link roadway, which in part complies with the path of the train line.
