Herodsfoot is a Thankful Village There are,about fifty two so-called Thankful Villages (also sometimes called Blessed Villages) in England and Wales.
These villages get this name from the fact that they were fortunate enough to see the safe return home of all their men and women who went to war in the First buy antibiotics over the counter World War.
Herodsfoot is the ONLY Thankful Village in Cornwall.
The War Memorial can be found in the centre of the village and names those who served and returned.
1914 - LAWRENCE Sydney 1916 - BENNEY Richard 1916 - TUCKER George 1917 - CASSIDY John 1917 - DEACON John 1917 - HOOPER Thomas John 1917 - JULIAN William John 1918 - RAPSON Walter More 1918 - ROWSE William 1918 - TRETHEWEY William