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South Molton is a town and civil parish in the North Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.The town is on the River Mole.In 2021 it had a population of 6225. South Molton is a market town trading mostly in sheep and cattle.
South Molton Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Devon, England, from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the north of the county. The district was named after the town of South Molton and had its offices there.
The Devon historian Richard Polwhele (d.1838) in his work History of Devonshire (1793-1806) stated Bremridge to be the property of the Fortescue family [62] (created Earl Fortescue in 1789), whose principal seats were at Weare Giffard and at nearby Filleigh, where in about 1728 Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Clinton (1696–1751), built the present ...
South Molton Pannier Market is the pannier market for the town of South Molton in Devon, England located behind the town's Grade I listed Guildhall [1] which was constructed between 1739 and 1741. Originally, goods were sold in the Old Market House in the town which was built to replace the shambles of butchers and other small shops which stood ...
High Bickington is a rural village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. The village lies on the B3217 road, around 6 miles (10 km) east of Great Torrington, 8 miles (13 km) south-west of South Molton, and 8 miles (13 km) south of Barnstaple. [2] At the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 837. [1]
Grilstone in the parish of Bishop's Nympton in north Devon, England, is an historic estate. The present grade II listed house, situated about 1 1/4 miles south-east of the market town of South Molton, is Georgian, an 1834 extension and remodelling by Rev. William Thorne of an earlier building. [2]
Bishop's Nympton is a village and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England, about three miles east of South Molton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 932. The electoral ward has the same name but covers the village and much of the land to the north-east. The ward population at the 2011 census was 1,911. [1]
The Guildhall on Broad Street in South Molton in Devon was built between 1739 and 1743 [1] and has been a Grade I listed building on the Register of Historic England since 1951. [2] Today the building is the town hall for South Molton. [3] Beside it, beneath the Old Assembly Room, is the entrance to the Pannier Market for the town. [4]