CORNWALL The dedication may perhaps he to llie (luron or Goran, who surrendered his cell at Bodmin to St. Petrock. Grade, a small parish near Lizard Town, contains the ancient seat of the Eriseys, whose mansion was built in the shape of the letter E. The church, like that of Sancreed, is dedicated not only to the Holy Creed or Faith, but to the Holy Cross ; at least such is the opinion of W. C. Borlase, who interprets Grade as a corruption of Credo. Mr. Baring-Gould, how- ever, speaks of a St. Credan in this connection — probably the saint whom Tonkin mentions as a great pig-healer ; and in the matter of dedications a definite personality is always more probable than an abstraction. Grainpound (2 m. S. of its railway station) is in a parish with the same dedication as the above, namely. Creed. An old story tells that the site of the church was determined by the cast of a stone, thrown by a giant, who threw so well that the stone nearly rolled out of the parish. This is rather an amusing idea of a parish existing before the church. However ancient Grampound may be— and some have identified it with the Volttba of the Roman itineraries — its name is clearly Norman, Grand- pont. Such names usually date from a time when bridges were still rare. No less than six camps in the neighbourhood of Grampound bespeak its antiquity as a settlement, situated on the main trackway that ran from Devon to Land's End. Its best boast, however, is having 116
