Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the border in between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and also Shropshire, England, concerning 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The village gets on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, and the Montgomery Canal goes through it. The boundary runs for the most component along the frontages of the structures on the eastern (English) side of the town's primary 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 boundary additionally passed right through the currently closed Lion club, which had 2 bars in Shropshire and also one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh counties were described as "wet" or "completely dry" depending upon whether individuals can drink in bars on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was legal to drink on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. 2 of the continuing to be open bars in the town are totally in England and the third is completely in Wales. Simply to the north of the town is Pant. Further north is the English market community of Oswestry. The English part of the town is in the civil parish of Llanymynech and also Pant, and also in the selecting ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.