Braunton is an English village, civil parish, ecclesiastical church as well as previous chateau in Devon. The town is positioned 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of Barnstaple. While not the biggest village in England, it is among one of the most populous in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 people. There are 2 electoral wards (East as well as West). Their joint population at the above demographics was 8,218. Within the church is the productive, low-lying Braunton Great Area, which adjoins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Location in North Devon Biosphere Get, the biggest psammosere (dune system) in England. It challenges the Atlantic Ocean at the west of the church at the huge coastline of Saunton Sands, among the South West's international-standard browsing coastlines. The population of Braunton, according to the census of 1801, was 1,296. This number raised rather swiftly in the thirty years to 1831, to 2,047 nevertheless the rate of increase slowed down throughout the following 10 years and coinciding with the arrival of the railway fell from 2,364 in 1851 to 2,089 in 1881. Population growth resumed as well as saw almost a doubling between 1961 and 2011, to 8,128 people. Data for 1801-- 1961 is offered at Britain Through Time. The 2001 and also 2011 Demographics offer comprehensive info regarding the village. The settlement's population in 2011 were residing in 3,552 families.