Monkton is a village and civil parish on the River Otter, about 2 miles north east of Honiton railway station,[1] in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.

[2] The parish touches Cotleigh, Upottery, Honiton, Offwell and Luppitt.

[3] The parish is in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

[5] The name "Monkton" means 'Monks' farm/settlement'[6] and is likely to have been of Ango-Saxon origin.

[7] The parish was historically in the Colyton hundred.