Braunton
Braunton is an English village, civil parish, clerical parish and former estate in Devon. The town is situated 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of Barnstaple. While not the biggest village in England, it is amongst one of the most heavily populated in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 people. There are 2 selecting wards (East as well as West). Their joint population at the above census was 8,218. Within the church is the fertile, low-lying Braunton Great Field, which adjoins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Area in North Devon Biosphere Get, the largest psammosere (dune system) in England. It challenges the Atlantic Sea at the west of the parish at the large beach of Saunton Sands, one of the South West's international-standard searching beaches. 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 nonetheless the rate of rise slowed throughout the following ten years as well as accompanying the arrival of the railway fell from 2,364 in 1851 to 2,089 in 1881. Population growth resumed and saw nearly a doubling in between 1961 and also 2011, to 8,128 people. Data for 1801-- 1961 is readily available at Britain Through Time. The 2001 and 2011 Censuses offer in-depth information concerning the town. The settlement's population in 2011 were staying in 3,552 homes.