Thrushelton or Thruselton is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

about 2 and a half miles north of Coryton railway station, in the

West Devon West Devon is a local government district and borough in Devon, England. Towns and villages in the district include Chagford, Okehampton, Princetown and Tavistock, where the council is based. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under t ...

district, in the county of

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, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 197. The parish touches

Bratton Clovelly Bratton Clovelly is a village, parish and former manor in the west part of Devon, England. It is situated about south-west of Okehampton immediately north of the A30 road. The manor of Bratton Clovelly was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. T ...

Bridestowe Bridestowe () is a civil parish and village in the district of West Devon, Devon, England. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Bratton Clovelly, Sourton, Bridestowe and Sourton Common, Lydford, Lewtrenchard an ...

, Lewtrenchard,

Stowford Stowford is a village and civil parish in the district of West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is situated to the west of Dartmoor. Stowford is about 1 mile west of the village of Lewdown and about 11 miles south-west of Okehampton in De ...

Broadwoodwidger Broadwoodwidger is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 548. The village is just to the north of the A30 road, and is about eight miles east of Launceston in ...

, Marystow and Germansweek.

Features

There are 22 listed buildings in Thrushelton.

History

Thrushelton was recorded in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

as ''Tresetone''. The name "Thrushelton" means 'Thrush farm/settlement'. The parish was historically in the

Lifton Lifton may refer to: * Lifton, Devon, a village in England * Lifton Hundred, an ancient administrative unit * Lifton railway station * Barbara Lifton (born 1950/51), politician * David Lifton (born 1939), author * Jimmy Lifton (born 1955), musici ...

hundred. On the 25th of March 1885 Wortham, Orchard, and Kilson Houses was transferred from Lewtrenchard parish to Thrushelton parish. The transferred area contained 3 houses in 1891.

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Villages in the Borough of West Devon {{Devon-geo-stub