CRUGGION (CRUGION), a chapelry, in that part of the parish of ALBERBURY which is in the lower division of the hundred of
CAWRSE, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, 6 miles (N. E.) from Welshpool, containing 173 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Alberbury. The chapel is a neat edifice of brick, situated not far from the banks of the Severn.
A National school is supported by subscription, in which about forty children are instructed. Methuselah Jones, in 1727,
bequeathed a rent-charge of £3. 3. for providing annually ten coats for poor persons of this place. On the loftiest of the
Breidden hills, in this chapelry, an obelisk was erected, in 1781, in commemoration of the distinguished naval services of
Admiral Lord Rodney, particularly of his defeat of the powerful French fleet in the West Indies, commanded by Count de
Grasse. The inhabitants are separately assessed for the maintenance of their own poor: the average annual expenditure is
£92. 1.