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Subterranea Britannica: Sites:criggion_radio (766 words) |
 | Secrecy surrounded Criggion in the past although a number of publications suggested that its role was chiefly defence-related, providing worldwide radio coverage on the very low frequency (VLF = long wave) band to ships and submarines (the station had nothing to do with the BBC and was never used for broadcasting to the public). |
| Criggion radio station was born as a direct result of Hitler's war and the Admiralty's realisation that Rugby's VLF transmitter (callsign GBR), vital to the war at sea, had no standby and might be severely damaged or destroyed by stray bombs intended for nearby Coventry. |
| Criggion's GBZ played an important part in the sinking of the Scharnhorst and the capture of the Altmark, and letters of thanks were received from the Admiralty for the assistance given. |
| Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - Projects - Longer - Historic Churches - Montgomeryshire Churches Survey - Criggion (1714 words) |
| Criggion Church is in the Diocese of St Asaph, in the community of Bausley with Criggion in the county of Powys. |
| Criggion is recorded in the Bishop's registers in 1767, when Thomas Eyton, the last Squire of Criggion, undertook to build a new church on his own land at his own expense, and promised that he and his family would maintain it. |
| Until 1864, Criggion was a chapel-of-ease to the mother church at Alberbury. |
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