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Colyton is a town 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 kilometres) from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, lowering to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a major part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward population 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 regulation of King Edmund I was provided at Colyton in about 945. This assisted to support feudal culture, by mentioning plainly its 4 columns: kingship, lordship, family, and area. It grew into an important farming centre and also market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron shop and an oak bark tannery that is still operating. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the town was Colcombe Castle, currently destroyed, a previous seat of the Courtenay family members, Earls of Devon. Following the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, and those within Colyton were offered back for £ 1,000 to various residents of Colyton parish, as listed in a deed recorded in the Letters and also Documents of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as “John Clarke and others. Grant in free socage, subject to rental fees etc. (defined), for l,000 l, of the adhering to lands (levels provided) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton estate, Devon, as well as came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted”. This was the beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to hold in usual various residential or commercial properties in the church. The town has been described as “one of the most defiant community in Devon” due to the number of its inhabitants that signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.