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Creigiau is a dormitory settlement in Cardiff, Wales, UK. It currently has about 1,000 houses, containing a population of approximately 2,400 people, located just outside of the Cardiff city boundary.
Its industrial centre was a quarry, which opened in the 1870s, but closed in 2001. For decades Creigiau was a tranquil retreat, popular with day-trippers from Cardiff and Barry (to which it was linked by a railway closed as part of the Beeching cuts). In the mid 1970s, housing estates sprang up to accommodate commuters and pensioners. The village in its modern form was predicated on universal access to a motor car and public transport became expensive and infrequent. Further expansion took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Creigiau is now a village of a type common around the edges of British cities, seen as lacking individuality and at odds with its surroundings.
It has one of the highest volumes of Welsh speakers per capita of any region in Wales and also one of the highest employment rates of any area in Wales.
Local amenities include a primary school, which teaches through the medium of Welsh and English, a golf club, a small Tesco, a Post Office, a GPs` surgery, and local pub known as The Creigiau Inn.
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