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CRIGGION, or Cruggion, a township-chapelry in Alberbury parish, Montgomery; on the river Severn, under Breidden Hill, adjacent to the boundary with Salop, 2½ miles ESE of Four-Crosses r. station, and 7 NNE of Welshpool. It has a post office under Shrewsbury. Real property, £2, 905. Pop., 187. Houses, 34. The property is all in one estate. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £108.* Patron, V. Vickers, Esq. The church is built of red sandstone, and is picturesque and good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Montgomeryshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | CRIGGION | CRIGGION OR CRUGGION | CRUGGION |
| Place: | Crugion |
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