Trusham is a small village and civil parish in the Teign Valley, between Newton Abbot and Exeter, in the Teignbridge district, in the county of Devon, England.

The settlement was first recorded in the Domesday Book as Trisma in 1086, which is hypothesised to be a compound of the south-western Brythonic words trev and isam meaning lower homestead.

[a] The Church of St Michael is an ancient stone building in the early English and Perpendicular styles with traces of Norman work.

Causley's poem "Trusham" is an account of a return he made to the village in his later years; a reflection on one's family roots, what it is to be distant from those, and the legacies we leave behind us.

A later poem, "The Prodigal Son", recounts a further visit by Causley to his ancestral village, linking once again the local geography, history and landscape with the First World War and his own family memories.