Colyton is a town 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 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 population at the above census was 4,493. Colyton first appeared as an old town around 700 AD and also functions in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The 3rd code of regulation of King Edmund I was provided at Colyton in around 945. This helped to stabilize feudal culture, by stating plainly its four columns: royalty, lordship, household, and neighbourhood. It turned into an essential farming centre as well as market community with a corn mill, saw mill, iron factory and an oak bark tannery that is still working. Positioned 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometres) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, now knocked down, a former seat of the Courtenay family members, 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 various homeowners of Colyton parish, as provided in an act transcribed in the Letters and also Documents of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summarised as "John Clarke and others. Grant in complimentary socage, based on leas and so on (specified), for l,000 l, of the following lands (extents provided) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton estate, Devon, and came from Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to hold in typical various buildings in the parish. The community has been described as "the most defiant town in Devon" as a result of the variety of its residents that joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.