Braunton is an English village, civil parish, ecclesiastical church as well as previous manor in Devon. The village is positioned 5 miles (8 km) west of Barnstaple. While not the biggest village in England, it is among one of the most populated in Devon with a population at the 2011 census of 7,353 people. There are 2 selecting wards (East and West). Their joint population at the above census was 8,218. Within the parish is the fertile, low-lying Braunton Great Area, which joins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Area in North Devon Biosphere Book, the biggest psammosere (sand dune system) in England. It confronts the Atlantic Sea at the west of the parish at the large coastline of Saunton Sands, one of the South West's international-standard surfing coastlines. The population of Braunton, according to the census of 1801, was 1,296. This number raised quite rapidly in the thirty years to 1831, to 2,047 nonetheless the price of rise slowed during the next one decade and also accompanying the arrival of the railway fell from 2,364 in 1851 to 2,089 in 1881. Population growth resumed and saw almost an increasing in between 1961 and 2011, to 8,128 people. Information for 1801-- 1961 is offered at Britain With Time. The 2001 and 2011 Demographics give comprehensive info concerning the town. The negotiation's population in 2011 were staying in 3,552 households.