Rillaton

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cornwall, England}}

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File:Blocked up entrance to Rillaton Barrow.JPG

Rillaton ({{langx|kw|Reslegh}})[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. is a hamlet in the parish of Linkinhorne in Cornwall, England. Nearby is the Bronze Age round barrow where the Rillaton Gold Cup was found in 1837.

Rillaton was the head manor of the hundred of East WivelshireThorn, Caroline, et al. (eds.) (1979) Cornwall. Chichester: Phillimore 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.{{NHLE|num=1020637|desc=Medieval bridge at Starabridge|accessdate=5 August 2016}}