The Domesday Survey records that 'Pondestoch' was under the manor of Launcells. In 1066 Poundstock was held by Earl Harold, having been held by Countess Gytha of Wessex before the Conquest; in 1086 it was under the lordship of Iovin the Craftsman, being King William and Count Robert of Mortain tenants-in-chief. The earliest recorded mentions of a church at Poundstock refer to 1282, when the rector of Morwenstow seized the parish church and installed his own incumbent, and to 1261, when the rector of Poundstock was excommunicated. In 1333 the church was dedicated to 'Sancti Wynwolai', but in 1742 it was recorded as St Neot's church; during the 1970s it was dedicated again to St Winwaloe (Orme 1996, 112).