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South Molton is a small town in Devon, England. It is part of the North Devon local government district. The town is on the River Mole. According to the 2001 census the civil parish of South Molton had a population of 4,093, increasing to 5,108 at the 2011 Census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parish population 2011 )〕 The town also has an electoral ward with the same name. The population of this ward at the same census was 4,875〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ward population 2011 )〕 We have therefore the unusual situation where the town is larger than the ward. The town was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It retained this status as a municipal borough until 1967, when it became a rural borough in the South Molton Rural District.〔(Vision of Britain )〕 On 14 March 1655, Sir John Penruddock was captured after a three-hour street fight in South Molton by soldiers of the New Model Army under the command of Captain Unton Crook. With his capture, the Penruddock uprising came to an end and so did the 1655 plans of the Sealed Knot to restore King Charles II to the throne of England. South Molton is a well-built market town trading mostly in sheep and cattle. South Molton had a railway station on the Devon Railway until 1966, when the branch line was finally closed. The station was described in detail in the best selling railway publication ''the Country Railway''.〔David St John Thomas, ''The Country Railway'', 1976, 2011, Frances Lincoln Ltd, London, pp.125-141, ISBN 978-0-7112-3260-0〕 It is situated on the southern side of Exmoor just off the North Devon link road, which in part follows the route of the railway line. ==Education== There are good local educational facilities, South Molton Community College〔(South Molton Community College website )〕 which is a state secondary school rated as a specialist technology college. South Molton Primary School was one of the schools studied in the 1950s by Iona and Peter Opie.〔Opie, Iona & Peter (1959) ''The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren'' Oxford: Clarendon Press〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South Molton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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