Criggion Radio Sation

Breidden Hill having an almost shear drop of 900 feet on its north face it was used to support a gigantic antenna array known as the Criggion Radio Station. This radio station consisted of three stayed masts at an impressive height of 720 feet and three self supporting towers at a height of 680 feet. The structures where set out in a way that the large cable antenna they supported was also supported by a winch and bond set up near the very summit of Breidden Hill. This winch suspended it out from the cliffs across to the central tower at the transmitter hall. The site and its antenna array in total covered over 3 acres of land at the base of the hill and the weight of the cables supported to make the array was 42 tons. The radio station here has sadly gone as technology superseded it and the site was therefore not required anymore. Its main purpose was a back up site to the much bigger antenna array that was at Rugby in Warwickshire and that site too has now gone. Criggion was decommissioned in the year 2003 and all 6 structures where removed. The only part of the site that is now left include the remains of the transmitter hall along with its outbuildings and the winch house. The transmitter hall and outbuildings are all at the base of the hill when the winch house is high up on the cliff face above the quarry near the summit of Breidden Hill.