Rousdon is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Axminster Hundred. It falls within Honiton Vol 1 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 46 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.

A parish history file is held in Seaton 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 Rousdon 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 84/9 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 84SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SY296912. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SY29SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 029, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 193. Geological sheet 326 also covers the area.

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

Rousdon, now united with Combpyne for all purposes, was a small parish on the cliff edge. The ancient church of St. Pancras having fallen into ruin, it was rebuilt at the cost of Sir H. W. Peek in 1872. It has nothing to commend it. The mansion of Rousdon was built for Sir H. W. Peek, and is a rich man's Tudor. Since 1937 it has been occupied by Allhallows School, who came here from Honiton. The cliff scenery is fine, with great landslips.