Grampound
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Grampound is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom, with 638 residents as of the 2001 census. It lies on the A390 road, between Truro and St Austell, and also on the River Fal.
Together with the nearby hamlet of Creed, the village forms a civil parish, named Grampound with Creed. It is part of the borough of Restormel. Formerly Grampound was in the parishes of Creed, with part in the parish of Probus.
It was formerly considered a town, having been granted a charter some time before the 1334. It elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons from the reign of Edward VI until it was disenfranchised in 1821, after a corruption scandal that led to the conviction and imprisonment of several people for bribery. See Grampound.
MPs to have represented the town include William Noye, John Hampden, Grey Cooper and Charles Wolfran Cornwall.
About 1.5 miles north west of the town proper is a railway town named Grampound Road, this does not form part of the Grampound with Creed parish, but is instead part of the Ladock parish, which is part of the Carrick district. The railway station of that name was situtated here; it was opened on 4 May 1859 and closed in October 1964.
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