South Molton
South Molton is a small town in Devon, England. It belongs to the North Devon local government district. 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 community likewise has a selecting ward with the same name. The population of this ward at the exact same census was 4,875 We have as a result the unusual circumstance where the town is larger than the ward. The community was one of the districts reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It maintained this status as a metropolitan borough till 1967, when it became a country district in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a durable market community trading primarily in sheep and also livestock. South Molton had a railway station on the Devon Railway until 1966, when the branch line was lastly shut. The station was defined thoroughly in the very best selling railway magazine the Country Railway. It is situated on the southern side of Exmoor just off the North Devon web link road, which partially complies with the course of the railway line.
