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Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It is located within the East Devon local authority area. It is 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) from Seaton and also 6 miles (9.7 km) from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, minimizing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a huge part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward populace at the above census was 4,493. Colyton first appeared as an ancient village around 700 AD as well as functions in the Domesday Book as ‘Culitone’. The third code of legislation of King Edmund I was issued at Colyton in around 945. This assisted to maintain feudal society, by specifying clearly its 4 pillars: royalty, lordship, family members, and area. It became an important agricultural centre and market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry and also an oak bark tannery that is still functioning. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometres) to the north of the town was Colcombe Castle, currently destroyed, a former 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 different homeowners of Colyton parish, as noted in an act transcribed in the Letters and also Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as “John Clarke and others. Grant in complimentary socage, subject to rental fees and so on (defined), for l,000 l, of the adhering to lands (degrees provided) in the church of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton estate, Devon, as well as came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted”. This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, who remained to keep in typical various residential or commercial properties in the parish. The town has been called “one of the most defiant town in Devon” due to the number of its citizens who joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.