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Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It lies within the East Devon neighborhood authority area. It is 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) from Seaton and also 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, minimizing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a major part of the Coly Valley selecting ward. The ward population at the above demographics was 4,493. Colyton first appeared as an ancient town around 700 AD and attributes in the Domesday Book as ‘Culitone’. The 3rd code of regulation of King Edmund I was provided at Colyton in about 945. This helped to stabilize feudal culture, by specifying plainly its four columns: kingship, lordship, family, and also neighbourhood. It turned into a crucial agricultural centre and market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron factory and also an oak bark tannery that is still working. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, currently demolished, a previous seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. Adhering to 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 numerous locals of Colyton parish, as noted in an action recorded in the Letters as well as Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as “John Clarke and others. Grant in free socage, based on leas and so on (specified), for l,000 l, of the adhering to lands (extents provided) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton manor, Devon, and came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted”. This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, that remained to hold in typical various residential properties in the parish. The community has been called “one of the most defiant community in Devon” as a result of the number of its residents who joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.