South Molton
South Molton is a town in Devon, England. It belongs to the North Devon local government area. The town gets on the River Mole. According to the 2001 census the civil parish of South Molton had a population of 4,093, boosting to 5,108 at the 2011 Census. The town also has an electoral ward with the exact same name. The population of this ward at the very same census was 4,875 We have therefore the unusual circumstance where the community is larger than the ward. The community was among the boroughs changed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It maintained this condition as a metropolitan borough up until 1967, when it became a rural district in the South Molton Rural District. South Molton is a well-built market town trading primarily in sheep as well as cattle. South Molton had a train station on the Devon Railway until 1966, when the branch line was ultimately closed. The station was described in detail in the best marketing railway publication the Country Railway. It is positioned on the southern side of Exmoor simply off the North Devon web link roadway, which partly adheres to the course of the train line.
