Braunton
Braunton is an English town, civil parish, clerical church as well as previous estate in Devon. The town is situated 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of Barnstaple. While not the largest village in England, it is amongst the most populous in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 individuals. There are two electoral wards (East and also West). Their joint population at the above census was 8,218. Within the church is the productive, low-lying Braunton Great Area, which joins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Area in North Devon Biosphere Reserve, the largest psammosere (dune system) in England. It challenges the Atlantic Ocean at the west of the church at the huge coastline of Saunton Sands, one of the South West's international-standard surfing beaches. The population of Braunton, according to the census of 1801, was 1,296. This number increased quite rapidly in the thirty years to 1831, to 2,047 however the rate of boost reduced throughout the next one decade and coinciding with the arrival of the railway dropped from 2,364 in 1851 to 2,089 in 1881. Population growth returned to and saw almost an increasing in between 1961 and also 2011, to 8,128 individuals. Data for 1801-- 1961 is available at Britain Via Time. The 2001 and 2011 Censuses give thorough info concerning the village. The negotiation's population in 2011 were residing in 3,552 families.