Creigiau
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Creigiau is a dormitory settlement in the north-west of Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

, the capital of Wales
Wales
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. The village currently has about 1,000 houses and a population
Population
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 of approximately 2,400 people.

History

Creigiau's former industrial centre was a quarry
Quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, and gravel. They are often collocated with concrete and asphalt plants due to the requirement...

, which opened in the 1870s and closed in 2001. The village was linked to Cardiff and Barry by a railway closed as part of the Beeching cuts, and the station
Creigiau railway station
Creigiau railway station was a former railway station in Creigiau in south Wales. It was on the Barry Railway between Efail Isaf and Wenvoe, which ran broadly north-south through Creigiau. To the east of the station, a second former line headed north-west towards Llantrisant, and also south-east...

 was located on the eastern edge of the village. In the mid 1970s, housing estates sprang up to accommodate commuters.

Creigiau became part of the Unitary authority
Unitary authority
A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national...

 of Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

 in 1996 following Local Government reorganisation.

Amenities

Local amenities include a bilingual primary school, which teaches through the medium of both Welsh and English, a golf
Golf
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 club, a small Tesco
Tesco
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 Express shop - which is also the Post Office
Post office
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, a Recreation Ground managed by village residents (home of local archery, cricket, football, petanque and tennis clubs), a GP
General practitioner
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 surgery, and local pub called 'The Creigiau Inn'.

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