one case on all four sides and in the other on three sides. These two crosses are Hiberno-Saxon and both have the same unusual shape of the heads, with a crucifixus on one side. There is also a cross at Brane which serves as a boundary stone between Brane and Boswarthen. Another cross at Lower Drift was found about 1850 and there is yet another at Trenuggo Hill. Local government For the purposes of local government Sancreed is a civil parish and elects its own parish council every four years. The principal local authority is Cornwall Council. Famous people George Grenfell was born on 21 August 1849, in Sancreed and was a missionary and explorer. He died of Blackwater fever on 1 July 1906, in Basoko, Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). See also Wish Tree Clootie well References External links Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Sancreed Sancreed Genealogy On-Line Civil parishes in Cornwall Villages in Cornwall Penwith Holy wells in Cornwall