Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It is located 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, reducing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a huge part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward populace at the above demographics was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an ancient town around 700 AD and also functions in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The third code of legislation of King Edmund I was released at Colyton in about 945. This helped to support feudal society, by mentioning plainly its four pillars: royalty, lordship, family, and also neighbourhood. It turned into a crucial farming centre as well as market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry as well as an oak bark tannery that is still functioning. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the town was Colcombe Castle, now destroyed, a former seat of the Courtenay household, Earls of Devon. Adhering to the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, and also those within Colyton were marketed back for £1,000 to various homeowners of Colyton church, as provided in an act recorded in the Letters as well as Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as "John Clarke as well as others. Grant in complimentary socage, based on rents and so on (specified), for l,000 l, of the complying with lands (degrees provided) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton mansion, Devon, as well as belonged to Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, who remained to hold in common various buildings in the church. The town has been described as "one of the most defiant community in Devon" due to the variety of its citizens that signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.