Extract from Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall, 1883 (pages 852-853) CREED Creed, with Grampound chapelry, is a parish and township, in the Western division of the county, west division of Powder hundred, St Austell union and county court district, rural deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Truro, 5½ miles south-west from St Austell, 8 east from Truro and 3 south from Grampound Road station, on the Cornwall railway. In this parish is the major part of the disfranchised borough of Grampound. The river Fal, which separates this parish from Probus, is crossed at Grampound by a substantial stone bridge of two arches. The church of St Crida is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave of five bays, south aisle, north transept, porch and western embattled tower, built in 1773, with four pinnacles and containing 3 bells, of which the treble is undated; the second has in inscription to St Thomas, in Old English letters; the tenor was cast in 1633: in the transept is a stoup, with a Norman shaft and Decorated hood moulding: the rood loft stairs and part of the screen remain: there are memorials to Thomas Denys gent. 1589, and Marion, his wife, 1570, and Henry Denys B.C.L. their son, 1602, with others of a later date. The register, incorporating Grampound, dates from the year 1653. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £450, gross yearly value £500, with residence and 30 acres of glebe, in the gift of C.H.T. Hawkins esq. and held since 1867 by the Rev. Philip Woollcombe M.A. of Oxford. Garlenick House, re-built early in the present century and the seat of the Rev. Charles Moore B.A. is situated in a wooded valley and has fish ponds. Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins esq. J.P., D.L. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Viscount Falmouth, Lord Robartes, C.H.T. Hawkins esq., Major Thomas T.S. Carlyon J.P., D.L., John Tremayne esq. B.A., J.P., D.L., J.C. Williams esq., Michael H. Williams esq., Rev. John Daubuz B.A. and the Rev. Chas. Moore B.A. The soil is a rich loam; subsoil, marl and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. This is purely an agricultural district. The area is 2,809 acres; rateable value, £3,317; and the population (exclusive of Grampound) in 1881 was 243. Parish Clerk, William Andrew Letters through Grampound Road. Grampound is the nearest money order & telegraph office. The school for this parish is situated in Grampound. MOORE, Charles (Rev) B.A. Garlenick MOORE, (Mrs) Quarry Park WOOLCOMBE, Philip (Rev) M.A. Rectory COMMERCIAL ARTHUR, Margaret (Mrs) farmer Trevillack ARTHUR, William farmer BROAD, William Hy farmer Trevenna CHAPMAN, William farmer Bossullion CLARK, William farmer Trencreek CROGGAN, Thomas farmer Tregonjohn DUNGEY, Frances (Mrs) farmer Ventonwin FILKINS, Jane (Mrs) farmer Pengilly GRIGG, Joseph farmer Nantellan HAWKEN, Joseph farmer Nancor JULYAN, Richard farmer Tregidgio LANE, John farmer Corwinnick MAGOR, John farmer Pennance MICHELL, Richard farmer Pencoyse NETTLE, Richard farmer Treccaine PILL, James farmer, miller (water) Bailey’s Mill REYNOLDS, Nicholas farmer Treswallan SMITH, George William farmer Trewinnow SOPER, James farmer Trewinnow STEPHENS, Edwin farmer Garlenick TANK, Samuel Edward farmer Trevillack WILLIAMS, Mary Ann (Mrs) farmer Polglaze Transcribed by John Evans .