Poughill is in the hundred of Stratton, and is washed to the west by
the sea and Bude Bay, to the north joins Kilkhampton, to the east and
south Stratton.
This church is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Book, at £6. 12_s._
6_d._; the patronage in the Crown, or in the Duke of Cornwall; the
incumbent Mr. Charles Orchard.
In the year 1291, 20 Edward I. the rectory of this church, by the name
of Ecclesia de Pegwille, is valued at liij_s._ iv_d._ it being then
appropriated to the Abbey of Cleve in Somersetshire; and the vicarage,
“Nihil propter paupertatem.”
In Domesday Book, amongst the manors given by William the Conqueror to
his half-brother, Robert Earl of Morton, when he made him Earl of
Cornwall, is Pochehelle, which probably gave name to this parish,
turned euphoniæ gratiâ to Poughill.