{"id":1096,"date":"2010-07-16T13:50:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2010-07-16T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:50:03","slug":"barnstaple-and-braunton-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/barnstaple-and-braunton-devon\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnstaple and Braunton Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Devon towns which both have significant claims to fame are <a title=\"Map of Barnstaple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/barnstaple-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barnstaple<\/a> and Braunton located close to each other on the North Devon coast. Barnstaple is claimed to be the United Kingdom\u2019s oldest borough, having its own mint even before the invasion of Britain by the Normans. A town which grew around the wool trade, Barnstaple was established on the River Taw\u2019s lowest crossing point. To the north-west of Barnstaple, Braunton claims to be the biggest village in the United Kingdom, though many would call it a small town with its resident population of 7,500. Another ancient settlement, <a title=\"Braunton Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/braunton-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Braunton<\/a> was mentioned in the Domesday Book and was possible founded by St Brannock, a missionary who crossed the Bristol Channel in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> century AD. Both towns attract visitors for various reasons and the North Devon coast sees a large influx of tourists during the summer months due to the fine <a title=\"Barnstaple Weather Forecast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/barnstaple-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">weather<\/a> conditions and the attractive coastline. <a title=\"Map of Devon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/devon-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Devon Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Devon towns which both have significant claims to fame are Barnstaple and Braunton located close to each other on the North Devon coast. Barnstaple is claimed to be the United Kingdom\u2019s oldest borough, having its own mint even before the invasion of Britain by the Normans. A town which grew around the wool trade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[165,628,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}