Colyton
Colyton is a town in Devon, England. It lies within the East Devon neighborhood 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, minimizing 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 first looked like an old village around 700 AD and also attributes in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The 3rd code of regulation of King Edmund I was released at Colyton in about 945. This helped to maintain feudal society, by specifying plainly its 4 pillars: royalty, lordship, household, and neighbourhood. It turned into an important farming centre and also market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron factory 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, currently destroyed, a former seat of the Courtenay household, Earls of Devon. Following 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 different residents of Colyton parish, as noted in a deed transcribed in the Letters and Documents of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as "John Clarke and also others. Grant in cost-free socage, based on rents etc. (defined), for l,000 l, of the adhering to lands (extents given) in the church of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton chateau, Devon, and belonged to Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, that remained to keep in common various properties in the church. The town has actually been described as "one of the most rebellious community in Devon" due to the number of its citizens who signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.