Brushford is located within Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Nort Tawton Hundred. It falls within Chulmleigh Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 146 in 1801 59 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 31 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Crediton Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.

Maps: The image below is of the Brushford area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 53/4 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 53NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS923257. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS92NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 181. Geological sheet 294 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

BRUSHFORD church (St. Mary) stands alone in the fields with the Georgian barton-farm below. Its tower of dunstone is weather-boarded in the top stage, and surmounted by a charming slated semi-steeple. The three original medieval bells remain, but the body of the church was too much restored in 1876-7. The chancel screen is of almost unique design. A parallel to it is found in Brittany, at St. Fiacre- le-Faouet. Its cresting has been replaced by some poor carpentry. The 12th century S. doorway remains, but nothing else of the Norman church. In the reign of Elizabeth the Luxtons purchased the rectory and the manor from the Crown and remained here until early in this century as parsons and squires. The church is worth visiting for its air of remoteness, its beautiful situation, and its screen.