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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Creed like this:
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 a . e 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.
Creed is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Creed itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Creed in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2209
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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