Llanymynech is a town straddling the border 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 is on the financial institutions of the river Vyrnwy, and the Montgomery Canal travels through it. The border runs for the most part along the frontages of the buildings on the eastern (English) side of the town's major road, with the eastern fifty percent of the village in England and also the western half in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha lies just in England, although the entire town depends on the same ecclesiastical church. The boundary also passed throughout the currently closed Lion bar, which had 2 bars in Shropshire and also one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh counties were referred to as "damp" or "completely dry" relying on whether people might drink in clubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was lawful to consume alcohol on Sundays in both English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. Two of the continuing to be open bars in the town are entirely in England and also the third is entirely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. Additional north is the English market community of Oswestry. The English part of the town remains in the civil parish of Llanymynech and also Pant, and also in the electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.