Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, concerning 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The village is on the financial institutions of the river Vyrnwy, as well as the Montgomery Canal travels through it. The boundary competes one of the most component along the frontages of the buildings on the east (English) side of the village's major street, with the eastern half of the town in England and the western half 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 parish. The border also passed throughout the now shut Lion pub, which had two bars in Shropshire and also one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh regions were described as "wet" or "completely dry" depending on whether individuals can drink in bars on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was completely dry it was lawful to consume on Sundays in both English bars of the Lion but not the Welsh bar. 2 of the continuing to be open bars in the town are completely in England as well as the third is completely in Wales. Just to the north of the town is Pant. More 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 electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.
