OS Grid Reference: 50°46'N 4°33'W
Name Origin: Old English Pondestock monastry with a pound.
LAND OF THE KING
St Kew
Two manors, PODESTOT and St Gennys, have been taken from the manor. 1½ hides. Land for 12 ploughs. Iovin holds them from the Count of Mortain. Formerly 60s; value now 40s.
LAND OF THE COUNT OF MORTAIN
Iovin holds PONDESTOCH. Gytha held it before 1066, and paid tax for 1 virgate of land; 1 hide there, however. Land for 6 ploughs; 1½ ploughs there, with 1 slave and 1 villager and 5 smallholders. Woodland, 10 acres; pastures, 40 acres. Value formerly and now 20s. [10 cattle; 50 sheep Exon]
This land is of St Kews.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
POUNDSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of LESNEWTH, county of CORNWALL, 4¾ miles (S.S.W.) from Stratton, containing 744 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the kings's books at £13. 6. 5., and in the patronage of John Dayman, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Neot. The parish is bounded on the west by Widemouth bay, in the Bristol channel. A fair is held on the Monday before Ascension-day.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Poundstock, a village and a parish in Cornwall, The village stands 1½ mile W of Wideinouth Bay, 5¾ SSW of Stratton, and 12½ NW of Launceston station on the G.W.R.; was known at Domesday as Poupestock. There is a post office under Stratton; money, order and telegraph office, Stratton. Acreage of parish, 4799; population, 496. There is a parish council consisting of seven members: The manor belonged anciently to the Earl of Mortaigne. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £140 with residence. The church is ancient but good, and has a lofty tower. There are Methodist and Bible Christian chapels.
Poundstock, three miles north-west of Week St. Mary, is the site of Penfound Manor, the oldest inhabited manor house in Britain. Part Saxon, part Norman with Elizabethan and Stuart additions: it was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The 14th century Guildhouse, restored in 1919, is the only one still in use in Cornwall; the upper floor of the two storey cob and stone building has a lofty timbered roof and medieval doorway.
Associated Families: Berriman Cowling Goodman Marshall Penwarden Webb
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