South Molton
South Molton is a town in Devon, England. It becomes part of the North Devon city 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, raising to 5,108 at the 2011 Census. The community also has a selecting ward with the exact same name. The population of this ward at the exact same census was 4,875 We have consequently the unusual situation where the town is larger than the ward. The community was just one of the boroughs changed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It preserved this condition as a local borough up until 1967, when it ended up being a rural borough in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a sturdy market town trading mainly in sheep and also livestock. South Molton had a train station on the Devon Railway up until 1966, when the branch line was ultimately shut. The station was defined carefully in the most effective marketing train publication the Country Railway. It is positioned on the southern side of Exmoor just off the North Devon link road, which in part complies with the route of the railway line.
