Creed Cornwall Family History Guide
Creed is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.
Other places in the parish include: Grampound.
Alternative names: Creed with Grampound
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Presbyterian.
Adjacent Parishes
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CREED, a parish in St. Austell district, Cornwall; on the river Fal, near Grampound Road r. station, 6½ miles SW by W of St. Austell. It contains the greater part of Grampound township, which has a head post office. Acres, 2,809. Real property, with the rest of Grampound, £4,005. Pop., 743. Houses, 153. The property is subdivided. There are traces of ancient camps. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £351. Patron, H. T. Hawkins, Esq. The church is not good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Cornwall
- Civil Registration District: St Austell
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Powder
- Poor Law Union: St Austell
- Hundred: Powder
- Province: Canterbury