Sutreworde was a village and manor in historical record, also noted as Suðeswyrðe, located within the Teignbridge Hundred.
The village was recorded as Suðeswyrðe in the 899 will of King Alfred the Great, being left to his youngest son Æthelweard.
[4] The manor was controlled by Ansgar the Staller as part of a 1,200 acre farm holding (4.9 km2) plus a large area of forest.
[7] Noted antiquarian and Lustleigh resident Cecil Torr disagreed and believed that Suðeswyrðe and Sutreworde refer to other settlements.
[8] Later scholarship by historian Ian Mortimer has suggested that Sutreworde was in Lustleigh parish,[9] but not at the current location of the village, but rather near the Iron Age hill fort at Hunter's Tor in Lustleigh Cleave on the edge of the parish, making Sutreworde a deserted medieval village.