Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a town straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, regarding 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh town of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The village is on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, as well as the Montgomery Canal travels through it. The boundary competes the most part along the frontages of the structures on the eastern (English) side of the town's main street, with the eastern fifty percent of the town in England as well as the western half in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha exists just in England, although the whole town lies in the exact same clerical church. The border likewise passed right through the currently closed Lion pub, which had 2 bars in Shropshire and also one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were described as "damp" or "completely dry" depending on whether people could drink in clubs 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 pubs in the town are totally in England and the third is entirely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. More north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the town is in the civil parish of Llanymynech and also Pant, and in the selecting ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.
