POUGHILL, a parish in Stratton district, Cornwall; on the coast, 1¼ mile N W of Stratton, and 17 N N W of Launceston r. station. Post-town, Stratton, Cornwall. Acres, 1, 947; of which 100 are water. Real property, £2, 145. Pop., 363. Houses, 86. The property is much subdivided. The manor was known, at Domesday, as Pochehelle; belonged then to the Earl of Mortaigne; was given to Cliff abbey in Somerset; and passed to the Stanburys and others. Flexbury and Bushill are chief residences. Stamford hill was the scene of a defeat of the parliamentarians in 1643. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £116.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and has a pin-nacled tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, an alms-house, and other charities £4.

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