It is adjacent to the town of Colyton to the north and lies within its civil parish boundaries.
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Another of the attractions of the village is the Seaton Tramway that runs along the discontinued railway branch line from Seaton to Colyton from Spring to Autumn.
Situated 1/2 mile to the north of the village was Colcombe Castle, now demolished, a former seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon.
Though born in Palmerston North he grew up on a dairy farm near the small community of Colyton.
The family moved to temporary lodging at Colyton House in nearby Colyton where they remained for two years.
He and his wife are depicted in life-size effigies under an ornate canopy supported on Corinthian columns in Colyton Church.
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Old Shute House (known as Shute Barton between about 1789 and the 20th century), located at Shute, near Colyton, Axminster, Devon, is the remnant of a mediaeval manor house with Tudor additions, today in the ownership of the National Trust.
Patrick Hassell Frederick Mermagen (8 May 1911, Colyton, Devon – 20 December 1984 Ipswich, Suffolk) was a public school teacher and cricketer who played eight first-class matches for Somerset in 1930.
Part of the trackbed has been used to construct the Seaton Tramway to Colyton, a tourist attraction.
Lord Colyton married Alice Labouisse Eno, daughter of Henry Lane Eno, a banker and Princeton University Professor, in 1927.
Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet (1678–1741), of Colcombe Castle, near Colyton and Shute, near Honiton, Devon, was an English politician.