South Molton
South Molton is a town in Devon, England. It is part of the North Devon local government district. The town is on the River Mole. According to the 2001 census the civil parish of South Molton had a population of 4,093, increasing to 5,108 at the 2011 Census. The town additionally has an electoral ward with the same name. The population of this ward at the same census was 4,875 We have therefore the unusual situation where the community is larger than the ward. The town was just one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It preserved this condition as a municipal district up until 1967, when it ended up being a rural borough in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a well-built market community trading mainly in sheep as well as cattle. South Molton had a railway station on the Devon Railway up until 1966, when the branch line was finally closed. The station was explained carefully in the most effective selling railway magazine the Country Railway. It is situated on the southerly side of Exmoor just off the North Devon web link road, which in part complies with the course of the train line.