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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, 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 census was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an old village around 700 AD as well as functions in the Domesday Book as ‘Culitone’. The third code of legislation of King Edmund I was released at Colyton in around 945. This assisted to maintain feudal culture, by stating plainly its four pillars: kingship, lordship, family, and also area. It turned into a vital agricultural centre and also market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron shop and also an oak bark tannery that is still working. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometres) to the north of the town was Colcombe Castle, now knocked down, a previous seat of the Courtenay household, Earls of Devon. Complying with the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, as well as those within Colyton were offered back for £ 1,000 to numerous homeowners of Colyton church, as provided in an action transcribed in the Letters and also Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summarised as “John Clarke as well as others. Grant in cost-free socage, based on rents etc. (specified), for l,000 l, of the complying with lands (extents offered) 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 origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, that remained to keep in common different buildings in the parish. The town has actually been referred to as “one of the most defiant town in Devon” due to the number of its citizens that signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.