Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a town straddling the boundary in between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and also Shropshire, England, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The town is on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, and also the Montgomery Canal travels through it. The border competes one of the most component along the frontages of the buildings on the eastern (English) side of the village's primary 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 exists just in England, although the entire village hinges on the same clerical parish. The boundary additionally passed right through the now closed Lion club, which had 2 bars in Shropshire as well as one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were referred to as "wet" or "completely dry" depending upon whether individuals can drink in clubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was lawful to consume alcohol on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. 2 of the continuing to be open pubs in the village are completely in England as well as the 3rd is entirely in Wales. Just to the north of the village is Pant. More north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the village is in the civil parish of Llanymynech and also Pant, as well as in the electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.
