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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 km) from Seaton and also 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, decreasing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a major part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward population at the above demographics was 4,493. Colyton first appeared as an old town around 700 AD and features in the Domesday Book as ‘Culitone’. The 3rd code of law of King Edmund I was issued at Colyton in about 945. This aided to stabilize feudal culture, by mentioning plainly its 4 pillars: kingship, lordship, household, and also neighbourhood. It became a vital agricultural centre and market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron shop as well as an oak bark tannery that is still working. Located 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, now knocked down, a former seat of the Courtenay household, 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 marketed back for £ 1,000 to various residents of Colyton parish, as listed in an act recorded in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as “John Clarke and others. Grant in totally free socage, subject to rents and so on (specified), for l,000 l, of the following lands (levels given) in the church of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton manor, Devon, as well as belonged to Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted”. This was the beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to hold in typical different buildings in the parish. The community has been referred to as “the most rebellious community in Devon” due to the variety of its inhabitants who joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.