Bausley with Criggion is a

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The Bausley and Criggion Community Council dates back to at least 1761. Villages within the community include

Criggion Criggion ( cy, Crugion) is a village in Powys, Wales. Criggion Radio Station was located nearby. A branch of the now defunct Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway was a railway running from Sh ...

, Crewgreen and Coedway. In 2011 the population of Bausley with Criggion was 706 with 7.8% of them able to speak

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. In terms of

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, the community had the lowest percentage in the whole of Powys. The Criggion Radio Station is located in this community, a transmitter latterly operated by BT on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence. The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Criggion, is a Grade II*

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

. The Bausley with Criggion Community Council has eight locally elected councillors who represent the community's opinions and interests. Wales football international Stan Rowlands was born at Coedway in 1889. He went on to make Football League appearances for

Wrexham Wrexham ( ; cy, Wrecsam; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the count ...

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