Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a town straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, as well as Shropshire, England, about 9 miles (14 km) 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 the Montgomery Canal goes through it. The boundary runs for one of the most part along the frontages of the buildings on the east (English) side of the village's primary road, with the eastern half of the village in England and also the western fifty percent in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha exists simply in England, although the entire village lies in the same clerical church. The border likewise passed throughout the now closed Lion bar, which had two bars in Shropshire as well as one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were described as "wet" or "dry" depending upon whether people might drink in bars on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was completely dry it was lawful to drink on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion but not the Welsh bar. Two of the staying open clubs in the town are completely in England as well as the third is entirely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. Further north is the English market community of Oswestry. The English part of the town is in the civil parish of Llanymynech as well as Pant, as well as in the electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.
