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{{Short description|Hamlet in Cornwall, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
[[File:Blocked up entrance to Rillaton Barrow.JPG|thumb|Rillaton Barrow]]
'''Rillaton''' ({{langx|kw|Reslegh}})<ref>[http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)] : [http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 '''List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel''']. [[Cornish Language Partnership]].</ref> is a hamlet in the parish of [[Linkinhorne]] in [[Cornwall]], England. Nearby is the Bronze Age [[Rillaton Barrow|round barrow]] where the Rillaton Gold Cup was found in 1837.
Rillaton was the head manor of the hundred of East [[Wivelshire]]<ref>Thorn, Caroline, et al. (eds.) (1979) ''Cornwall''. Chichester: Phillimore</ref> and one of the [[Antiqua maneria]], the original 17 manors belonging to the Earldom of Cornwall. [[Stara Bridge]], a surviving [[clapper bridge]], provides evidence of the economic importance of Rillaton in the [[Late Middle Ages]].<ref name="HE">{{NHLE|num=1020637|desc=Medieval bridge at Starabridge|accessdate=5 August 2016}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
*[[Stara Woods]]
==References==
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[[Category:Hamlets in Cornwall]]
[[Category:Manors in Cornwall]]
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