POUNDSTOCK, a village and a parish in Stratton district, Cornwall. The village stands 1½ mile W of Widemouth-bay, 5¼ S S W of Stratton, and 12½ N W of Launceston r. station; was known, at Domesday, as Poupestock; and has a fair on the Monday before Holy Thursday. The parish extends to the coast; and comprises 4, 624 acres of land, and 190 of water. Post-town, Week, St. Mary, under Stratton, Cornwall. Real property, £2, 744. Pop. in 1851, 651; in 1861, 534. Houses, 109. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Earl of Mortaigne. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £174.* Patron, J. Dayman, Esq. The church is ancient but good, and has a lofty tower.

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