Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the boundary between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, about 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The village gets on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, and the Montgomery Canal passes through it. The border competes the most part along the frontages of the buildings on the east (English) side of the town's major street, with the eastern fifty percent of the village in England as well as the western fifty percent in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha lies just in England, although the entire town lies in the very same ecclesiastical church. The boundary also passed throughout the currently closed Lion pub, which had 2 bars in Shropshire and one in Montgomeryshire. At once Welsh counties were referred to as "damp" or "dry" depending upon whether individuals could drink in clubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was legal to consume on Sundays in both English bars of the Lion however not the Welsh bar. 2 of the continuing to be open clubs in the village are entirely in England and also the third is entirely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. Further north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the town is in the civil church of Llanymynech as well as Pant, and in the selecting ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.
