Totnes is a market town and also civil church ahead of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It has to do with 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Exeter as well as is the administrative centre of the South Hams District Council. Totnes has a lengthy recorded background, dating back to 907, when its first castle was developed. By the twelfth century it was currently an essential market town, and also its former riches as well as importance may be seen from the variety of sellers' residences built in the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. Today, the town is a growing centre for music, art, theatre and natural health. It has a significant choice and also "New Age" area, and also is called a place where one can live a bohemian way of life. 2 selecting wards state Totnes (Bridgetown and Town). Their consolidated populations at the 2011 UK Census was 8,076.