Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It is located within the East Devon local authority area. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Seaton as well as 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 huge part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward population at the above census was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an ancient village around 700 AD and functions in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The 3rd code of regulation of King Edmund I was issued at Colyton in about 945. This aided to stabilize feudal culture, by specifying plainly its 4 pillars: royalty, lordship, household, and also neighbourhood. It grew into a crucial farming centre and market community 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 kilometres) to the north of the town 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 numerous locals of Colyton parish, as provided in an action transcribed in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summarised as "John Clarke and also others. Grant in free socage, based on rental fees etc. (defined), for l,000 l, of the complying with lands (degrees offered) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton mansion, Devon, as well as came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, that continued to keep in usual different residential or commercial properties in the church. The town has been called "the most rebellious town in Devon" as a result of the number of its inhabitants that joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.