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Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It lies within the East Devon neighborhood authority location. It is 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) from Seaton and 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, reducing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a huge part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward populace at the above demographics was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an ancient village around 700 AD as well as attributes in the Domesday Book as ‘Culitone’. The 3rd code of legislation of King Edmund I was released at Colyton in around 945. This aided to maintain feudal culture, by specifying clearly its 4 columns: royalty, lordship, family, and also neighbourhood. It grew into an important farming centre and also market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron factory and an oak bark tannery that is still operating. Located 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometres) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, now demolished, a former seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. Following the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, as well as those within Colyton were sold back for £ 1,000 to various homeowners of Colyton church, as noted in an action transcribed in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as “John Clarke and others. Grant in complimentary socage, based on leas and so on (defined), for l,000 l, of the complying with lands (degrees given) in the church of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton manor, Devon, and also belonged to Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted”. This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to hold in usual various buildings in the church. The community has been described as “the most defiant town in Devon” as a result of the number of its citizens that signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.