COLYFORD, a hamlet in the parish of COLYTON, and hundred
of COLYTON, county of DEVON, 1 mile (S. S. E.) from
Colyton, with which the population is returned. Colyton
was made a borough before the reign of Edward I.:
it is governed by a mayor, who is chosen annually at the
court of the lord of the manor. The tolls of a large
cattle fair, held on the first Wednesday after March 11th,
belong to the mayor, and the great tithes within the
limits of the borough to the vic.ar of Colyton. Sir T.
Gates, who discovered the Bermuda Isles, was born
here.