Sancreed is situate in the hundred of Penwith, and hath upon the north
Morva, west St. Just, south Buryan, east Madderne.
At the time of the Norman Conquest this district passed under the
jurisdiction of Alverton. In the inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln
and Winchester, aforementioned 1294, Ecclesia de Sancti Credi, in
decanatu de Penwith, was rated at £6. In Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, at
£8. The parish was rated to the four shillings per pound Land Tax,
1696, at £91. 9_s._ 0_d._
The earth of this parish hath tin lodes in it of great riches.