Colyton
Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It lies within the East Devon local authority area. It is 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) from Seaton and also 6 miles (9.7 km) 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 population at the above demographics was 4,493. Colyton first appeared as an old town around 700 AD and also attributes in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The third code of regulation of King Edmund I was provided at Colyton in around 945. This aided to support feudal society, by specifying clearly its four columns: royalty, lordship, household, as well as neighbourhood. It turned into a crucial farming centre and market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron shop as well as an oak bark tannery that is still working. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, now demolished, a previous seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. Adhering to the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, and those within Colyton were marketed back for £1,000 to numerous residents of Colyton church, as detailed in a deed transcribed in the Letters and Documents of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as "John Clarke and others. Grant in free socage, subject to rental fees etc. (defined), for l,000 l, of the following lands (levels provided) in the church 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 continued to keep in typical various residential or commercial properties in the church. The community has actually been called "one of the most rebellious town in Devon" as a result of the number of its citizens that signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.
