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 km) from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, minimizing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a huge part of the Coly Valley selecting ward. The ward population at the above census was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an old village around 700 AD and also functions in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The 3rd code of legislation of King Edmund I was issued at Colyton in about 945. This aided to stabilize feudal society, by mentioning clearly its four columns: kingship, lordship, family members, and area. It became an essential farming centre as well as market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry as well as an oak bark tannery that is still working. Located 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the town was Colcombe Castle, now knocked down, 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 those within Colyton were offered back for £1,000 to numerous homeowners of Colyton parish, as detailed in a deed recorded in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as "John Clarke and others. Grant in totally free socage, subject to rents etc. (defined), for l,000 l, of the following lands (degrees provided) 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 beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, who remained to keep in typical different buildings in the parish. The town has actually been called "the most defiant town in Devon" as a result of the variety of its inhabitants who joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.