A social evening was held in the Heritage Centre onTuesday, 22 November to thank both our town walking tour guides for another successful season and the history research volunteers who spent the summer researching aspects of the town’s history as part of the Parish History Project.  During the evening participants were given a preview of.. read more →

Chairman, Tony Underdown and members of the Colyton Chamber of Feoffees were welcomed to the Heritage Centre on Wednesday evening, 16 November by Mrs Marian Sydenham, Chairman of CPHS and members of the Project Steering Committee for an update on progress with the Parish History Project. The Feoffees were shown the new digitizing equipment and.. read more →

  We have had a really good start to the season with some very interesting visitors to the Heritage Centre, a training session for volunteers and some new displays including our medieval merchant mannequin Ken – kindly supplied by John Forrester Addie. We were visited by ‘Charlie’ who was a pupil of St Jude’s School,.. read more →

Dr Todd Gray will be guest speaker at the Annual Parish Council meeting at the Feoffees Town Hall at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 20 April 2016 and will be speaking about some of the forgotten history of Colyton. read more →

Editor’s Note Something that has puzzled me since I became Bailiff to the Chamber of Feoffees just over 3 years ago is why the good citizens of Colyton paid King Henry VIII 1000 marks and not in pounds for the seized Courtenay estates in Colyton?  And what was a mark worth? I mentioned this to.. read more →