Colyton
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 populace at the above census was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an ancient village around 700 AD as well as attributes in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The 3rd code of legislation of King Edmund I was provided at Colyton in around 945. This assisted to stabilize feudal society, by stating clearly its four columns: royalty, lordship, family members, and also neighbourhood. It turned into an essential farming centre as well as market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron factory and an oak bark tannery that is still functioning. Positioned 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, currently knocked down, a former 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 sold back for £1,000 to various locals of Colyton parish, as detailed in an act transcribed in the Letters and also Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summarised as "John Clarke and others. Grant in complimentary socage, based on leas and so on (specified), for l,000 l, of the following lands (degrees given) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton manor, Devon, and also came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, that continued to keep in typical various residential properties in the church. The community has been called "the most defiant town in Devon" as a result of the number of its citizens who signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.