Trusham
Trusham is a small village in the Teign Valley just outside of Chudleigh between Newton Abbot and Exeter in Devon. It has one pub which claims to be the oldest in Devon named The Cridford Inn. It is believed that the main site of the now, Cridford Inn, dates back to 1086 and was probably one of the nine small-holdings mentioned in the “Domesday Book”, which belonged to the Abbey of Buckfast in the Manor of Trusham. During the early 14th and 15th Centuries, the building itself was a farmhouse and the stained glass window in the bar is from this period and is probably the earliest surviving example of a Medieval domestic window in England. It is also believed that The Cridford Inn is home to two ghosts.[1]
In the church is a memorial to John Stooke which mentions a charity he set up for the church and the poor of nearby Bovey Tracey. The story, first recorded in 1709, goes that in 1646 an officer in the Royalist army was gambling at Bovey when he was cornered by Roundheads. He threw his bag of winnings to a servant, who threw them over a hedge, where they were found by Stooke, then a humble farmer's boy. Stooke's fortune was founded on his lucky find. Bovey's altar fund still receives a small annual sum from the charity.
Trusham is also famous for being the ancestral home of the Causley family whose descendants include the poet Charles Causley and the folk singer Jim Causley. In September 2007, Trusham held the first Charles Causley festival in conjunction with the Charles Causley Society of Launceston. There is a plaque in the village to celebrate Causley's life and the Charles Causley Society hold regular events in Trusham such as Causley readings and poems set to music, hog roasts and barn dancing.[2]
At the bottom of the village it is still possible to see the now disused and privately owned Trusham train station which was part of the Teign Valley Line.
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Media related to Trusham at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 50°38′N 3°37′W / 50.633°N 3.617°W