Colyton
Colyton is a town in Devon, England. It is located within the East Devon regional authority location. It is 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) from Seaton and 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 selecting ward. The ward populace at the above census was 4,493. Colyton initially looked like an ancient village around 700 AD and attributes in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The third code of legislation of King Edmund I was issued at Colyton in around 945. This aided to maintain feudal culture, by specifying plainly its four columns: kingship, lordship, family members, and also neighbourhood. It became an essential agricultural centre and also market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry and also an oak bark tannery that is still working. Located 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometres) to the north of the town was Colcombe Castle, currently knocked down, a former seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. Adhering to 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 various locals of Colyton parish, as detailed in an act recorded in the Letters and also Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as "John Clarke and others. Grant in cost-free socage, subject to leas and so on (defined), for l,000 l, of the complying with lands (extents offered) in the church of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton mansion, Devon, and came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the beginning of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to keep in common different properties in the church. The town has been called "the most defiant community in Devon" because of the number of its inhabitants who signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.
