is a parish in the hundred of Penwith, about 4 miles from Penzance. It had both a Wesleyan chapel as well as the Church of England's St. Sancredus - pictured above. Principal villages are the Churchtown, Drift, Sellen, Brahan, and Newbridge. In 1801, the population was 782; it rose to 1,382 in 1851, and currently there are about 600 persons living in the parish. Wholly situated on granite, with a light loam covering, it is mainly a farming area today.
The Online Parish Clerk for Sancreed is Gwen Attridge, who
can be reached by Email.
Please visit our
website for more information, including parish register
transcriptions and census data.
Gwen
Transcriptions of the 1841 and 1891 census are available on our website. Further information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCen at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.
Transcriptions of many Parish Registers are on our website, others can be found in our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently. History and maps are available at the West Penwith website.
Most directories can be found at the West Penwith site, link above. For more information, see GenUKI, link below.
To view the Will of George Pender SCOBELL, dated 27 October 1807, click here.
For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit the West Penwith website or GenUKI.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Sancreed can be located at coordinates B - 2.
For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy- United Kingdom & Ireland).
To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.
St Just in Penwith,
Madron, Paul
and St Buryan.
