Colyton
Colyton is a town in Devon, England. It lies within the East Devon regional authority area. 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, lowering to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a huge part of the Coly Valley selecting ward. The ward populace at the above census was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an ancient town around 700 AD and attributes in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The third code of law of King Edmund I was provided at Colyton in about 945. This helped to maintain feudal society, by mentioning plainly its four pillars: kingship, lordship, family, and neighbourhood. It became an essential agricultural centre and market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry and also an oak bark tannery that is still working. Positioned 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, currently demolished, a previous seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. Complying with the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, and those within Colyton were sold back for £1,000 to different residents of Colyton parish, as noted 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 free socage, based on leas and so on (defined), for l,000 l, of the complying with lands (levels given) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton mansion, Devon, and belonged to Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, that remained to keep in common various buildings in the church. The town has been described as "the most defiant community in Devon" due to the variety of its citizens that signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.
