STOCKLAND, a village and a parish in Axminster district, Devon. The village stands 5 miles NNW of Axminster r. station; is large and scattered; and has a post-office under Honiton, and a cattle fair on the Wednesday after 11 June. The parish includes Dalwood chapelry, and comprises 7,558 acres. Real property, £10,053. Pop., 1,615. Houses, 345. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with Dalwood, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £457.* Patrons, the Freeholders and Inhabitants. The church is ancient. There are a Baptist chapel, an endowed school with £10 a year, and charities £50.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))