POUGHILL, a parish in the hundred of STRATTON,
county of CORNWALL, 1 mile (N. W.) from Stratton,
containing 378 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £6. 12. 1., and
in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Olave. The Bude and Holsworthy canal
passes through the parish. Here was fought, on May
16th, 1643, the celebrated battle of Stratton, in which
the parliamentarian troops, under the Earl of Stamford,
were signally defeated by the Cornish forces, under Sir
Beville Granville.