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• Total Population 1801 to 1971: Population grew from 0 in 1801 to 181 in 1971.
• Occupational Structure in 1831: Out of 13 males aged 20 and over, 5 were Agricultural Labourers.
• Occupational Structure in 1881:

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Alternative names

We know of no alternate names.

Unit associations

This unit was associated with the following other units:

Nature of association	Other unit involved	Type of unit	Authority
was succeeded by	EXMOOR EP	Ecclesiastical Parish	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
DEVON	Ancient County		1884	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 85.
SOMERSET	Ancient County			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
DULVERTON RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
SOUTH MOLTON RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District		1884	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
TIVERTON RegD	Poor Law Union/Reg. District		by 1861	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
DULVERTON RD	Local Government District			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
DULVERTON RSD	Sanitary District			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
DULVERTON	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
EXMOOR	Registration sub-District			1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 2, 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'.
SOUTH MOLTON RSD	Sanitary District		1884	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 85.
SOUTH MOLTON	Registration sub-District			1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
SOUTH MOLTON Hundred	Ancient District		1884	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.
WILLITON AND FREEMANORS Hundred	Ancient District			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 425.

Boundary changes

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date	Type of change	Other unit involved	Area transferred	Authority
24 Mar 1884	was reduced to enlarge	NORTH MOLTON CP/AP	That part in the county of Devon	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 14, 'Changes in the Areas of Civil Parishes effected by Local Government Board Orders under the Provisions of the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876 and 1879, or by the Act of 1882'.; LGBO 16348

Lower level units

We know of no units which were contained within this unit.