South Molton
South Molton is a town in Devon, England. It belongs to the North Devon city government area. The community gets 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 town likewise has an electoral ward with the exact same name. The population of this ward at the same census was 4,875 We have as a result the unusual scenario where the town is larger than the ward. The community was just one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It maintained this status as a municipal district up until 1967, when it came to be a rural borough in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a well-built market community trading primarily in sheep as well as cattle. South Molton had a railway station on the Devon Railway up until 1966, when the branch line was lastly closed. The station was described carefully in the most effective marketing train publication the Country Railway. It is situated on the southerly side of Exmoor just off the North Devon link road, which in part follows the course of the railway line.
