Trentishoe is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Braunton Hundred. It falls within Shirwell 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 128 in 1801 68 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 16 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Combe Martin 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 Trentishoe 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 2/14 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 2SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS647486. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS64NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Outdoor Leisure 09, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 277 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Trentishoe as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.

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

TRENTISHOE exceedingly remote at the end of a rough lane, has a small church (St. Peter), rebuilt in 1861. Externally it is charming; internally it has been over restored and filled with bad Victorian woodwork. Heddon's Mouth is a fine piece of coastal scenery, but the hills on all the approach roads are formidable. Tattiscombe was a Domesday manor.