A door. Heavy, lichened, carved away by hands and time. If I touch it a small filminess come from it, a little bit of it, onto me. Is it absorbed by my skin? Does it eek through me slowly in my blood: will it carry its memories to my own?
Each time we remember, a memory becomes polluted by the moment we remember it in. So things we have remembered many times have changed and shifted in each remembering. Like a chinese whisper. Facts infused by fiction, memory floods like hot water onto the leaves of our understanding. Our age.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
The History Bit
Name Origin: Old English Pondestock monastry with a pound
From the Doomsday Book
The Land of the King
St KewTwo manors, PODESTOT and St Gennys, have been taken from the manor. 1½ hides. Land for 12 ploughs.Lovin holds them from the Count of Mortain. Formerly 60s; value now 40s.
Land of the Count of Mortain
Lovin holds PONDESTOCH. Gytha held it before 1066, and paid tax for 1 virgate of land; 1 hide there, however. Land for 6 ploughs; 1½ ploughs there, with 1 slave and 1 villager and 5 smallholders. Woodland, 10 acres; pastures, 40 acres. Value formerly and now 20s. [10 cattle; 50 sheep Exon]This land is of St Kews.
From A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831
POUNDSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of LESNEWTH, county of CORNWALL, 4¾ miles (S.S.W.) from Stratton, containing 744 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the kings's books at £13. 6. 5., and in the patronage of John Dayman, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Neot. The parish is bounded on the west by Widemouth bay, in the Bristol channel. A fair is held on the Monday before Ascension-day.
Poundstock, three miles north-west of Week St. Mary is the site of Penfound Manor, the oldest inhabited manor house in Britain. Part Saxon, part Norman with Elizabethan and Stuart additions: it was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The 14th century Guildhouse, restored in 1919, is the only one still in use in Cornwall; the upper floor of the two storey cob and stone building has a lofty timbered roof and medieval doorway.
From the Doomsday Book
The Land of the King
St KewTwo manors, PODESTOT and St Gennys, have been taken from the manor. 1½ hides. Land for 12 ploughs.Lovin holds them from the Count of Mortain. Formerly 60s; value now 40s.
Land of the Count of Mortain
Lovin holds PONDESTOCH. Gytha held it before 1066, and paid tax for 1 virgate of land; 1 hide there, however. Land for 6 ploughs; 1½ ploughs there, with 1 slave and 1 villager and 5 smallholders. Woodland, 10 acres; pastures, 40 acres. Value formerly and now 20s. [10 cattle; 50 sheep Exon]This land is of St Kews.
From A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831
POUNDSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of LESNEWTH, county of CORNWALL, 4¾ miles (S.S.W.) from Stratton, containing 744 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the kings's books at £13. 6. 5., and in the patronage of John Dayman, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Neot. The parish is bounded on the west by Widemouth bay, in the Bristol channel. A fair is held on the Monday before Ascension-day.
Poundstock, three miles north-west of Week St. Mary is the site of Penfound Manor, the oldest inhabited manor house in Britain. Part Saxon, part Norman with Elizabethan and Stuart additions: it was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The 14th century Guildhouse, restored in 1919, is the only one still in use in Cornwall; the upper floor of the two storey cob and stone building has a lofty timbered roof and medieval doorway.
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