Creed (Cornish: Krid) is a village in the civil parish of Grampound with Creed in Cornwall, England. It lies less than a mile south of Grampound and roughly midway between Truro and St Austell.
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Toponymy
The parish takes its name from Cride, a saint about whom little to nothing is known, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
History
Creed was an ancient parish in the Powder Hundred of Cornwall. The manor of Tybesta was the head manor of the hundred of Powder at the time of Domesday Book in 1086, and was later one of the seventeen Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall. It included the whole of the parish of Creed and parts of other parishes.
The town of Grampound was established in the parish in Norman times and quickly overtook the small village of Creed in size. Grampound was made a borough in 1332.
From the 17th century onwards, parishes were given various civil functions under the poor laws in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In Creed's case, such civil functions were performed separately for the area of the borough of Grampound and the rest of the parish. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Grampound became a separate civil parish from Creed. Despite the split of the civil parish, Grampound remained part of the ecclesiastical parish of Creed.
