Totnes is a market community and civil church ahead of the tidewater of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It has to do with 21 miles (34 kilometres) south-southwest of Exeter and also is the administrative centre of the South Hams District Council. Totnes has a long recorded background, going back to 907, when its very first castle was constructed. By the twelfth century it was already an important market community, and also its previous wealth as well as significance might be seen from the variety of vendors' houses constructed in the sixteenth as well as seventeenth centuries. Today, the community is a successful centre for songs, art, theatre and all-natural health. It has a big option and "New Age" area, and is known as a location where one can live a bohemian way of life. Two selecting wards discuss Totnes (Bridgetown and Town). Their consolidated populations at the 2011 UK Census was 8,076.