Braunton
Braunton is a large village, civil parish, ecclesiastical parish and former manor in Devon.
The village is situated 5 miles (8 km) west of Barnstaple. It is one of the largest villages in Devon with a population at the 2021 census of 10,217 people. There are two electoral wards. Their joint population at the above census was 8,218. Within the parish is the fertile, low-lying Braunton Great Field, which adjoins the undulating Braunton Burrows, the Core Area in North Devon Biosphere Reserve, the largest psammosere in England. It confronts the Atlantic Ocean at the west of the parish at the large beach of Saunton Sands, one of the South West's international-standard surfing beaches.
Getting around Braunton the local way
- Go nextPassenger ferries to Lundy Island Exmoor National Park lies 4 miles to the east by road from Ilfracombe Dartmoor National Park is about 1 hour's drive to the south.
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