Colyton
Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It is located within the East Devon neighborhood authority location. It is 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) from Seaton as well as 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 old town around 700 AD as well as attributes in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The third code of law of King Edmund I was provided at Colyton in around 945. This aided to maintain feudal society, by stating plainly its four columns: kingship, lordship, family, and neighbourhood. It grew into a vital agricultural centre as well as market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron shop as well as an oak bark tannery that is still operating. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometres) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, now destroyed, a previous seat of the Courtenay family members, Earls of Devon. Adhering to 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 numerous locals of Colyton church, as noted in a deed transcribed in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summarised as "John Clarke and also others. Grant in cost-free socage, subject to leas and so on (specified), for l,000 l, of the adhering to lands (levels provided) in the church of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton chateau, Devon, and came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to keep in usual different properties in the church. The community has actually been referred to as "the most defiant community in Devon" due to the variety of its residents that joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.