Trusham is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Exminster Hundred. It falls within Moretonhampstead 2 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 135 in 1801 173 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 32 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

You can search for 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 Trusham 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 101/3 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 101NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX855823. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX88SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.

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

TRUSHAM in the broken western foothills of Haldon where they fall to the Teign valley, has an attractive little early 1st century church (St. Michael). There is a curious monument, with portraits, to John Stooke and his wife (1697), and a monument to Hugh Staplehill and his family (I583) painted on wood.