Braunton

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Braunton
St Brannock's Church, Braunton
Village Green
Braunton Location within Devon
Population	7,353 [1] (2011)
OS grid reference	SS485365
Civil parish	Braunton
District	North Devon
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRAUNTON
Postcode district	EX33
Dialling code	01271
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Devon
List of places UK England Devon 51°06′36″N 4°09′43″W / 51.11°N 4.162°W / 51.11; -4.162

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.^[2] There are two electoral wards (East and West). Their joint population at the above census was 8,218.^[3][4] 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 (sand dune system) 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.