Llandinam
Llandinam is a town and also area in Montgomeryshire, Powys, main Wales, between Newtown as well as Llanidloes, situated on the A470. As a community, Llandinam is made up of the village itself, tiny communities consisting of Plas Dinam and also Little London as well as a number of farms. Llandinam was the family house of David Davies who was responsible for much of the development of the South Wales Valleys and the export of coal in the 19th century. Your house that David Davies built, Broneirion, stays a classy nation estate possessed by Girlguiding Cymru. The parents of Murray Humphreys, one of Chicago's the majority of feared Prohibition mobsters, emigrated to the United States from the village in the late 1890s. The bridge from the main road over in the direction of Broneirion was the first cast iron bridge constructed in the region, made by Thomas Penson and also developed by Davies 1846. It extends 90 feet (27.5 m). At the eastern end of the bridge there is a statue of David Davies. Gordonstoun college was left below throughout of World War II. The regional town school was threatened with closure in 2003 due to dropping student numbers; thanks to a prominent local project it was momentarily conserved. A selecting ward in the exact same name exists, which additionally covers the neighbouring neighborhood of Mochdre. The populace of this ward at the 2011 census was 1,405. It chose its first Conservative County Councillor in May 2017.
